31 Days…December

Row One: Billy in my studio, train tracks, freshly printed christmas cards on the drying rack.

Row Two: Unfinished pictures, robin drawing, rainy day.

Row Three: Christmas present, charcoal drawing, christmas crafting; hand printed wrap and cards.

Songs for christmas

1.low-just like christmas

2.the knife- reindeer

3.kate bush-december will be magic again

4.frightened rabbit-she screams christmas

5.poly styrene-black christmas(khan remix)

6.the sonics-don’t believe in christmas

7.soul saints orchestra-santa’s got a bag of soul

8.the leisure society-last of the melting snow

9.pearl jam-let me sleep

10.wisp-frozen days

Drypoint and Mono printing Workshop

Last Friday I had a great day teaching a drypoint and mono printing workshop. It was held at Shelley College, Huddersfield, and involved students aged 12-14 years from the College and local schools. We experimented with mono printing in the morning, trying different ways of drawing Christmas trees including continuous line and drawing without looking at the paper.

We then designed a dry point print by scratching into plastic sheets with drypoint needles. In the afternoon we printed our dry point trees and birds, finally gluing them on to card to make Christmas cards. Et Voila!

It was a great day with lovely pupils!

Songs for Colour

Boards of Canada-roygbiv

Slowdive-blue skied an’ clear

The Wilderness of Manitoba-yellow yard

The Nightcrawlers-little black egg

Pink Floyd-lucifer sam

Nick Drake-pink moon

Yeasayer-madder red

The Cocteau Twins-bluebeard

The Durutti Column- red square

Death in Vegas-all that glitters