Leave it to Jerome...

 We have received a number of donated books at the Alex, so we thought if we had a library of arty-ish books people could read, that would be cool. So this is my first try at a book plate. I thought St Jerome would be suitably bookish, and his lion would offer an admonishment to anyone who wanted to walk off with it. I think this one needs a couple of small tweaks, but I;m not sure C will like it.

Inktober 2024

 I had a touch of artist's block at the start of the month, so Inktober forced me to actually sit down and draw every day. This year's words struck me as some kind of adventure, so they turned into a story...

Close Work revisited

 This last couple of weekends I worked on some woodblocks to add colour to the black-and-white version of Close Work, I used some plywood from an old wardrobe that had a rough and open grain to it. To give a nice textured effect. I'm happier with it now,

Elephant and Cemex

 

Another elephant made for the Library's Fun Palace thing

Coming Soon! Anna Bloom in book form

 I decided to get this printed in advance of the Rugby Book Festival comng up on October 19th. I've put Anna Bloom together with Trigger Warning: Dance of Death and The Hand book into a slim volume that I will attempt to sell at the Alex. The box containing the first 25 should be here on the 16th. In the meantime here's the flipbook version.

Elephant and (inset landmark here)

 There's an upcoming event this weekend organised by the library. It's got a Diwali theme to it. This is a part of the Alex's contribution. Cards that kids (of all ages) could colour and decorate. I did five blocks (3 landmarks and 2 elephants) that could be mixed and matched to make six 2-block prints. Like this. 

It's that woman again

 In a bid to rediscover my mojo after a summer of physical labour on the Alex, I took a couple of blocks from an earlier piece (see here and here) and tweaked them and combined them with printing from some old texture wallpaper I'd removed from a wall. Like the previous one, it's not brilliant, but it allowed me to proceed with the sense of experimentation with pretty low stakes. The wallpaper came out a lot better than I expected.