Tracing sheets used for the A5 Black Ivory oil transfer drawings, aka Black Ivory 1 versions. You can buy prints of them, the full set are HERE.   Continue reading Black Ivory tracing rejects

Last night studio photos. Continue reading Pig carriers and Kenwood series

After a 5 month break, blackivory.org  has resumed. 21.07.17 Continue reading blackivory.org 2

Three three foot, deep edge, I think hessian canvases. The goat‘s painted over a Harry Adams painting they rejected, but kindly gave me to use, along with the other two blanks. Now the guitar playing video has been sent for L’ABC de la peinture diaporama, I think it’s just a case of printing the posters, and getting them to Paris. Continue reading Hessian

Rather than renailing the under-board, to hold the carvings in place, as the parosol is rolled over, or as you penguin walk over the paper, blu-tac works. Failing that, drawing pins. Rolling over with a stone makes the final image look as if it were carved in stone. In terms of trouser hangers that don’t drop A1 paintings, only Marks & Spencer and IKEA Bumerang … Continue reading IKEA Bumerang trouser hangers

“L’ABC de la peinture” | Dupont Cafe Bibliotheque, Paris | 2017 Some woodcuts made from a small chest of drawers I found on Muswell Hill Road. A concrete parasol base is a rolling printing press, added to spooning and walking over the paper on your heels. You have to dust any concrete crumbs off the paper, and from the side on the parasol every time … Continue reading Dupont Cafe Paris exhibition

Printmaking for the L’ABC de la peinture cafe exhibition in Paris. A three artist group show opening in less than two months. Today’s work morphed into magazine production of lyrics alongside CD cover sized woodcuts. A companion project to last year’s lyric book. Continue reading Printmaking for L’ABC de la peinture

Emma Pugmire, Charles Thomson and myself were in attendance this week. There’s not much uniform about tonights editions, tottering alignment and bleeding the top and bottom off the page leaves nowhere attractive to sign. The printing is as much part of the creative process as any other. Continue reading blackivory.org printmaking

At Chatham it’s possible to work on several cardboard paintings at once, with at least 15 to hand. In this vein, there’s 20 primed A1 sheets wallpapering the home studio, and a trouser hanger washing/drying line suspended a foot from the ceiling. Continue reading A1 oil on primed paper

Carving up more of yesterdays toxin free pallet. Linocuts fallen by the wayside, at least those without light sketch marks. Tomorrow night is blackivory.org print club, where the only productive work I can do is edition printing, as it’s fairly mechanical and, unlike drawing, can cope with discussion, distraction and the not constant, but irregular interruption. Drawing, or anything more creative than print-factory work has … Continue reading Prints from pallet

Pallets marked MB contain methyl bromide, a health hazard. I found one, but marked HT early this morning, round the back of Muswell Hill high street, so considered it safe to drag into the back garden, cut up into 10cm square squares, and start carving into DVD cover block prints. Whatever wood it is, I guess a soft pine, is ideal. Used an A4 pencil … Continue reading Woodblock printing DVD covers

Keeping on with the CD cover sized drawings on A4. Group name: A4 pencil squares. They look like an unintentional, or automatic, storyboard. As if a film’s being written in backward workflow: cover design dictates the storyboard, which dictates the script. The individual square pictures too, appear fairly automatically. Light abstract lines, to cloud forms, almost self-drawn pictures. Folding in to pocket size, I’ve prepared … Continue reading Automatic storyboards