Almost Finished

 I've worked this new mezzotint plate almost to the finish now. Just a few things to tidy up and some highlights to burnish to white and it will be ready to edition.

Inked plate on the hotplate ready for wiping.

Wiped plate on the press bed.

Plate and newly printed impression.

Derby Print Open

I have three Engravings and a Mezzotint accepted for this exhibition organised by Green Door Studios.
 

Art in the Pen

 Set up today at Art in the Pen at Craven Auction Mart in Skipton. I'll be there tomorrow 9am- 4pm and Sunday 10am - 4pm. 3 hours work to transform an empty pen into a mini art gallery.

Mezzotint Workshop

 Another very enjoyable two days spent delivering a mezzotint workshop at Prospect Studios in Waterfoot, Rossendale. Once again some excellent work has been produced in just two days.

Golden Plover

 Golden Plover

8 colour reduction linocut

190mm x 170mm

Newly completed linocut inspired by a recent walk across the moors at the head of the Calder Valley.

Spring Walk

 Finally editioned the new Mezzotint. Printed 52 impressions over 3 printing sessions. The latest of what seems to be a suite of images of pathways.

Inked plate on the press bed

Plate and impression

In the blotters to dry

Spring Walk

Mezzotint

200mm x 150mm

Edition of 50

Printed with Hawthorn Printmakers Carbon Black on 220gsm Fabriano Rosapina. 

There is some glare in the bottom right corner - I need to try and take a better photograph.

Field Work

 Drawings made on last Sundays trip out with Carly. Leaving the car at Widdop Gate on the Hebden Bridge to Colne road we walked up the Gorple track and skirted round Lower Gorple Reservoir then cut up the small valley to the ruined farm at Raistrick Greave before climbing on to the moor top by the medieval reaps cross before dropping back down to the car. Good numbers of Green Hairstreak Butterflies, Curlews everywhere and at least 5 pairs of Golden Plover on the moor top.

Green Hairstreak Butterfly, although almost all the individuals seen only had a few white dots rather than the full white hairstreak on the hind wing.

Raistrick Greave Farm, dating from around the mid 1600's and abandoned sometime around 1890 ish.

The medieval Reaps Cross, much repaired over the centuries and now missing it's cross pieces.

Reaps Cross and Golden Plovers flying passed. Lower Gorple reservoir in the middle ground and the watershed between the Calder and Aire Valleys on the horizon.