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Rinsey Cove, Wednesday the 21st November.  A beautiful place and the light was just amazing, and those waves we've had all week have just been fab. I had a good friend Sally to stay this week, PHEW ! just before the new lockdown and I've taken her to see my favourite places. We decided we would do a small piece of art inspired by our day out and about on Wednesday.  I chose this small section of Rinsey Cove beach for a mini linocut. First I flipped my photo so everything is the right way round for cutting.  I like...

I took this photograph looking out across the sea walking back up from Rinsey Cove, my new favourite place. I'm in love with these silver sea patches, the light playing on the water. I liked the challenge of cutting those clouds. I wanted to make a big print, this one is 50cm x 56cm. To make it easier to work with I cut the lino in two before I started. First I marked in white crayon an outline of my clouds and the white light I wanted to keep on the sea. Then I cut my first layer of cloud...

My challenge for this print was to capture the submerged seaweed covered rocks which I just love. Here's my print story from the inspiration to the finished artwork. I wanted to get across all the work that goes into producing a linocut print and how long it takes, so I did share this as I went along on my instagram 26th July  I started with a scribbly sketch to make a kind of composition plan. First I drew a simple line drawing in pen on my lino, then I used a white crayon to mark the sea foam and cut...

Earlier this year in March I was driving through Marazion and just had to stop and take photos, the light on the Mount was so dramatic I wondered if I'd be able to catch it on paper. For linocut don't forget to flip your image ! No. 1  Cut out everything you want to keep white. I drew on a simple image in pencil. My first colour was a pale yellow to add the brightness to the contrasting drama. You can see my pencil drawing coming through. No. I mixed 2 pale greys one more yellow than the other. you...

It took me all night but I made a video! I'm so proud of myself. And it was fun so now I know how I shall make more xx