Lately I’ve been somehow obsessed with nature drawings.
Leaves and flowers are slowly withering as fall is arriving, so I did some ink drawings of this natural process.
Looking Closely at Nature
plants
Some New Prints…
I haven’t done any printmaking for a while but now I want to start again with linocuts and woodcuts. I would like to do more of these…
Lush Nature
Although it has been raining a bit all day I went out and took some shots of the lush
vegetation after this refreshing summer rain.
Ink Drawings
EPSON MFP image
EPSON MFP image
EPSON MFP image
EPSON MFP image
EPSON MFP image
These drawings were done quickly with black drawing ink in a small sketchbook.
Often the sketches done without much effort are sometimes the ones which are most interesting…
Cutting into Wood
Last week I bought some wooden panels and did my first woodcuts.
If you choose a soft wood like limetree, cutting into wood doesn’t require much more strength than cutting into a lino plate.
You can also use linocut colours for printing.
Here are the first results:
Pastel Pictures
I rediscovered pastel drawing pencils and did these small pictures with them.
They should also serve as inspiration sketches for a series of woodcuts I want to do.
Let’s see how that’s going to work out…
Small Sketches
I love drawing, painting and collages so I did these small sketches recently using some pages of old books and other collage material.
Even if you can’t always see the original material any longer, I feel that the sketches have a different quality than paintings on simple white paper.
New Prints
A series of linocut prints inspired by plants, pots and the small everyday objects around me:
