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Prussia Cove
Here's a photo I've been dying to print since I took it. I love the composition of the rocks floating. The contrast of the dark rocks with the light patterned bottom of the pool. The delicate shadows of the little ripples. So how to best tackle the shadows. No white in this one so straight into colour. Here's the lino with the 2nd colour rolled on 4 colours make the bottom of the pool and a blue sky  the start of the rocks  2nd colour on the rocks and a sky blue onto the water surface  a dark green into...
Last Light
Last Light - came from a photograph I took last year walking around Gurnard's Head as the sun was setting and amazingly it had lined up with the rocks to send that shard of light across the sea. I looked for it again this year but it hadn't quite lined up. Stupidly I forgot to flip the photo before I started, so I can't call it Towards Pendeen ha ha. This print has so many colours I lost count and as usual there are bits I love like the lichen on the rocks at the front and the shard of...
St Ives Bay
First print of 2024 - St Ives Bay I'm loving the tranquility of this one. I'm going away in March to spend 3 weeks dancing Tango in Buenos Aires. It's my other passion so... I'e been working double time, days and nights to make sure I've started 2024 with some lovely big prints. Here's the first Photo inspiration - Looking across the wet sands of Porth Kidney towards Porthminster and St Ives.  My print St Ives Bay - It's a lovely calming early summer evening, light and reflections glow across the beach. Summer days and sand between your toes....
Rockpool, Cape Cornwall
I've been wanting to do a bigger print for a while and thought this rock pool image was just beautiful and so interesting I'd give it a go. I took the photograph down at Cape Cornwall in that gorgeous, hot, first week of September when in the sea was the best place to be. Then the paper arrived on a pallet and I thought I may have bitten off more than I could chew. I wasn't sure how to start. There are so many colours in this picture and I was trying to work out the order, but I couldn't...
Cape blues
Ooooo how could I resist such a perfect image for a linocut print, I was having a lovely swim but I had to go and get my phone to take a photo This is an addition of 12 but all the skies are different, instead of cutting the clouds I scrapped the ink off the lino with the palette knife. Here's how the print was made A pale blue with a pale grey 2nd layer 3rd layer 2nd blue ( see different sky ) 4th layer 2nd grey 5th layer 3rd blue 6th layer 3rd grey 4th blue 7th layer 4th...