To complete the final stage in the tree image, I painted a pale watercolour wash directly onto a blank screen, let it dry, then squeegeed acrylic medium through the screen…
Glass Artist & Illustrator
Glass Artist & Illustrator
Eclectic, original, and occasionally humorous, my art work is inspired by history, mythology and folklore.
The purpose of this print is to explore the possibilities of illustrating directly onto mark-relief film. This image started as a tracing of a postcard (a photograph) of the Queen…
The source of this print is a very quickly-done watercolour sketch made on a scrap of paper with a sponge. It was a learn-the-technique practice piece for a large watercolour…
Life Energy is a screenprint in progress. This is the source image, made by hand drawing the Chinese characters onto ordinary feint-ruled notebook paper, then cutting out the characters with…
Modern Times and Smithereens. Both are collagraph embossings (that is, printed without using ink) on damp Fabriano paper. The colour was added in Photoshop using a ‘curves’ adjustment layer on…
Second print pulled from the Queen of the Night’s hand collagraph plate. The first print was completely useless – there was no definition of the hand at all. On this…
A bit of Photoshop work. The bottom of the cubes are a little shaky, but the concept seems to work.
This is the collagraph plate after its first inking and pulling the first impressions. I’ve added PVA (“Elmer’s”) glue to the hand because the hand wasn’t distinct enough. The additional…
The new design is based on a free design called Graviora Manentfrom the Open Design Community. Thank you for the excellent head start, Grav. My version still needs a bit…
The annual comic book (“BD”, for bande dessinee) festival in Angoulême France includes a competition for best book in various categories. This year’s Fauve D’Or winner was Shaun Tan’s atmospheric…
… possibly not so great for the rest of us. The BBC says the minimum cost of building the plant is likely to be a mere £1.2bn and the on-going…