It's been a bit of a frustrating month since our summer holiday. I've made two attempts at a linocut of the lighthouse at Spurn Head and both attempts have ended up in the bin. The first abandoned after about 5 colours and the second after two colour passes. I'll return to the subject and give it another go as there is definitely a print there but I need a couple of months distance, to come back to it with fresh eyes.
So in the meantime I've been playing around with my sample endgrain wood blocks and engraved a couple of little prints.
22mm x 76mm
Engraved on Lemonwood.
Based on a recent sketch made on the Norfolk coast, looking across the wheat fields from near Paston to the church in the village of Bacton.
45mm x 39mm
Engraved on Maple Wood.
An incised marker stone probably dating from the late medieval times which stands beside the packhorse route which crosses the moor between Mankinholes and Cragg Vale in the Calder Valley. The latin inscription; Te Deum Laudamus translates as "we praise thee O Lord."
