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Add Maddarings 1 to 15
These are the first fifteen Add Maddarings. Oil paintings on A4 paper, hand drawn map done in pencil, glued onto cardboard I rescued from the street and painted in black acrylic. The green and red lettering is individually hand stamped in Caligo oil based printing inks. The writing on the back is done in Sharpie permanent…
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Illustrations for Monsieur Tourette Awakens in Mid-Tic: a retaliatory fiction by Ron Throop:
Also see: Illustrating Throop Part 1 | Part 2
Our builder gave me this piece of wood.
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.
Upper row of oil paintings. Lower row of self-portrait woodcuts. All drying. Three three foot, deep edge 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.
Studio shot, 2nd Feb 2017. 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 are yet to lose grip.
Block print board set up for A4. 
Block print roller. 
Edgeworth studio block prints. 
Drying line. 
Drying line. 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 to be done in preparation. Todays small wood blocks, are Album 1 Createspace inner sleeve art.
Edgeworth album cover and inked wood block 
Edgeworth inked wood carving. 
Edgeworth self-portrait inked wood carving 
Edgeworth self-portrait wood carving in progress 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 square drawing for the first image, an Elbow Sisters DVD cover. To go in my eventual online shop. May use the same print in L’ABC de la Peinture Paris cafe exhibition in March, dates for which are now confirmed: Thu 2nd March – Fri 17th March 2017.
Wood block carving and Elbow Sisters DVD covers in storage. 
Carved wood blocks for Elbow Sisters DVD covers. 
Wood blockprinting Elbow Sisters DVD covers. Today’s work morphed into magazine production of lyrics alongside CD cover sized woodcuts. A companion project to last year’s lyric book.
Portrait wood block prints. 
Goat tap lyrics and woodcuts. 
Drying block prints. 
Cat block prints. 
CD cover sized block prints. 
Artist studio photo. 
Goat block print.
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Drying recent work, including three from today: a cardboard horse and carriage, a black, blue and yellow deer and a black, blue and yellow man holding the side of a carriage.
Heckel’s Horse studio
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Three farm themed oil transfer drawings from Monday, outlined in compressed charcoal.
Heckel’s Horse studio
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Also see more self-portraits.
In the middle of some self-portrait oil transfer drawings. A3 and A2. From home video freeze frames and photos.
Got stranded in Gravesend today, so missed this Monday’s Heckel’s Horse.
Male nudes, self-portraits. Artist: Edgeworth
Male nudes, self-portraits. Artist: Edgeworth
Male nudes, self-portraits. Artist: Edgeworth
Male nudes, self-portraits. Artist: Edgeworth
Male nudes, self-portraits. Artist: Edgeworth
Male nudes, self-portraits. Artist: Edgeworth
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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.
Male nude painting, with a man chiseling a wolf behind.
Bull being saddled hung alone.
A thief, a man in an armchair and a huskie, foal and pig.
Edgeworth Johnstone 