Anna Pugh and Emily smith Polybank

Some cards i brought in Somerset resently, really inspiring little chickens, Anna Pugh did the top one and Emily smith Polybank did the linocut, i really like her work, here are some more...

Chicken Drypoint etching

Theo came back from Madrid with a really beautiful drypoint etching of a wild garden. It inspired me to try it out. It's really hard work scratching into the surface of the plate but i think its worth it, i love how the lines are thick and black like charcoal. This is an old plate that i found in the scrap pile so thats what the writting on the side is about, i enjoy reusing old plates that have been scratched up and bashed about, it gives them abit more texture.

Cheeky Chicken, childrens book.

Jhon Piper

I love his colours, he makes lots of paintings of churches.. find them here.

Maurizio Anzeri

Screen Printed Chickens.

Ive finally learnt how to screen print.

The fiddler.

Ive never really liked water coloured etching's .

Two etching plates.

Two etching plates, the man is a fiddler from gadja dilo and the woman from a modern travler article. They are both the same size, made on steel. Id like to slowly build up a few more similar characters, to sit along side each other in a series.

An Etching of a Chicken

I made this at the Princes Drawing school, they have free etching classes on a monday night and on the first session you get a free copper plate. It was really nice to explore a new studio and they have an aquatint gun which makes aquatint so much more simple!