Cornwall had a lovely sunny day back in March and I walked down to Pedn Vounder beach to stock up on inspiring photos for potential prints.
I got this one looking towards The Minack Theatre. It has such a beautiful subtle colour palette and so many sunshine sparkles I couldn't resist.
and looking in the other direction I got a photo I used to make the print Holiday
While I spent sunny days off in August with my grandsons in the evening I was cutting hundreds of tiny sparkles.
With this print there was a lot of cutting before the first colour could be printed.
Lino and first colour
first colour - pale warm grey
2nd colour - very pale blue
3rd colour - blue/grey
4th colour - brown
5th colour - grey all over and headland
6th colour - blue/grey 2nd headland
7th colour a darker brown
at this point I was worried about the brown, although it was brown on my photo I was loving the soft blues of the last layer so I made a decision to miss this brown layer on 10 of my prints.
Next layer a darker blue/grey mostly down the bottom
and lastly a darker blue/grey colour
So I have 10 that look like the one on the left and 15 of the right
I'm very happy with both and of all the people I've asked it's about 50/50 on their favourite
Limited edition of 25
9/10 colours
Somerset paper 250gsm
Print size 43 x 63cm
I'm putting the brown ones up first if you prefer the blue please email me
hazelbmcn@gmail.com
1-15 are the browner ones available to buy here
