Tigermoth

I completed this little print yesterday evening, based on a sketch I made about 5 years ago in north Somerset. Not being much of an entomologist, I'm OK on Butterflies and Dragonflies but that is about it. This one had me stumped at first. I knew enough to recognise it as some sort of Tiger Moth but that it wasn't the familiar Garden Tiger. A bit of research eventually identified it as a Jersey Tigermoth at a location that is about as far north as they get in the British Isles.

Jersey Tigermoth

7 Colour Reduction Linocut

144mm x 144mm

Beadnell Bay

The last two days have been spent editioning this mezzotint. Once I'd settled into the rhythm of inking wiping and printing I managed a rate of 4 an hour.

Beadnell Bay

Mezzotint

100mm x 150mm

Edition of 40