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Last Saturday I was supposed to have an art course on 'Painting Watercolour Landscapes'. This had already been moved twice, for obvious reasons, and was eventually cancelled. But after spending last weekend doing some writing, I decided that this weekend's creative time ought to be for art, which has the additional advantage when you've just had the coronavirus vaccine that much of it can be done sitting down and it isn't in front of a computer. So on Saturday I spent some time on exercises from a watercolour painting book I bought with the money refunded from the course*, and since this afternoon was forecast to pour with rain, today I printed the second and final layer of a volcano-inspired linocut.

I'd fancied doing something with lava for a while, and then a bit of Iceland decided to erupt and provided many inspiring photographs. I'm very pleased with how it worked out. I did a colour blend on the first layer, giving me different colours of the lava, and tried some Japanese paper that I'd forked out for, which proved well worth-it. Less friendly was the lino itself, a very old piece my mother had had hanging around, and which was rather dry and crumbly. Worked out fine in the end, especially as it was not a precise design, but a bit of a pain and a reminder to buy lino in small quantities (or use other stuff. Am currently also half-way through carving a piece in Japanese vinyl and interested to see how it prints).

See amateur red hot lava action below the cut...

Black ink still wet, hence a bit shiny.


The B&W worked quite nicely, too. Has an infra-red footage feel about it (especially in a couple of early test prints where I didn't get the black on smoothly). Volcano linocuts x 6

Table and tools. It isn't really ideal to do this in a room with a beige carpet, but at least the ink isn't drippy! Linocut printing things on a table

Linocut ink colour blend

*Tony Smibert Painting Landscapes from Your Imagination, which I saw reviewed on the internet and decided might actually work for me. As indeed it proved.

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Date: 2021-05-03 06:23 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] white_hart
Oh, I love the volcanoes!

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Date: 2021-05-03 06:46 pm (UTC)
alithea: Artwork of Francine from Strangers in Paradise, top half only with hair and scarf blowing in the wind (Default)
From: [personal profile] alithea
That looks great - very striking!

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Date: 2021-05-03 07:48 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] azdak
I'm so impressed with your artworks! The shape of the lava looks absolutely amazing and I love the colours - so simple and striking and so effective!

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Date: 2021-05-03 07:56 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] antisoppist
Lava! They are fabulous. You so need your own art studio where you can leave it all out and don't have to worry about the table or the carpet.

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Date: 2021-05-03 07:59 pm (UTC)
pensnest: mottled gold/pink background with outline of a flower in a circle (Glasspainting)
From: [personal profile] pensnest
These are very cool indeed.

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Date: 2021-05-03 09:59 pm (UTC)
aunty_marion: Heaps of blue cats (Smokey Mountain Cats)
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Those are gorgeous! I've been watching the various video-feeds from the current Icelandic volcano, and sometimes it's looked very like your prints. Especially at night, when you can really see the lava glowing; it often just looks black or very dull red in the daylight.

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Date: 2021-05-03 10:44 pm (UTC)
marginaliana: Buddy the dog carries Bobo the toy (Default)
From: [personal profile] marginaliana
Those are gorgeous! The bright color against the black is wonderful.

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Date: 2021-05-04 05:27 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] nnozomi
Gorgeous! The shots of your worktable are lovely in themselves, as well as the striking finished pieces.

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Date: 2021-05-04 08:38 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] girlyswot
Stunning work. Where’s the little printing press from?

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Date: 2021-05-04 10:05 pm (UTC)
girlyswot: (Default)
From: [personal profile] girlyswot
Oooooh. That is very tempting.

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Date: 2021-05-04 11:43 am (UTC)
tree_and_leaf: Watercolour of barn owl perched on post. (Default)
From: [personal profile] tree_and_leaf
Those are splendid!

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Date: 2021-05-04 08:50 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] joyeuce
Those look great!

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