Pop Goes the Artist!

I haven’t been posting about my own art lately because I haven’t been doing much lately.  I’ve been sketching, but even though I’m at home, I don’t have access to most of my art supplies (and my workspace) while our basement is being finished.  (Excuses, excuses… I know.)  However, the work should be done by Friday (fingers crossed!), so I’m very eager to set up my easel and start painting again.  I’d like to finish the last Lucy painting as well as a still life I started at the end of the summer.

I also have a block printing project planned.  I don’t do much block printing (it is so. much. work.), but every so often the fit takes me and I crank out a couple Christmas cards or something.  This time I’d like to do bookplates.  I’m accumulating quite a collection of nice hardcover books, so I’m going to design and print some bookplates and then hand-color them with watercolor.  I think that will look nicer and be easier than a multi-color block print.  I’ll post a sketch once I settle on a design.

I’m also finally trying out Daniel Smith for supplies.  I’ve heard good things about their printmaking inks (and they have to be better than Speedball’s), so I ordered a tube of oil-based black ink, a piece of linoleum, and a tube of acrylic paint, because I needed that anyway.  I’ll post reviews of the paint and the ink once I try them.

Tomorrow, I’ll post once of my recent charcoal sketches.

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