Hendrix Lino print

This is in effect a monoprint of Hendrix as each print is unique as I have added multi colours to a single sheet of Lino which has then been printed over a base of yellow gold

 

I was trying to attempt a more painted process- the two linocuts are visable in the header the back one being the main black or multi colour plate and the front one being the yellow base colour

Digital prints of Rock icons

 

Having seeen how good the digital image of the Sgt peppers Fab 4 was – I have added these four colourful Rock Icon characters to my list of available prints

these are A5 on a heavy gloss paper and are available from My Etsy page www.etsy.com/jaggerstudioThe above digital prints of Bowie, Jagger, Keith and Leonard are all based on an original linoprint hand cut by Steve Bennett

Were to buy

Originals of which can be found on my Artfinder page, The Bowie original is here

I will do a longer post on the last image, this was from a request – following a trend on Instagram to do a ‘best 9 of 2017’ I put together my favorite 9 rock icons and a number of people asked if I could do a print – this was my first Digital print also on Etsy

 

 

Local Art Cafe in Saltaire features Rock Icons

 

If you are local to Leeds why not pop into Masserella’s Art Cafe in Saltaire

Ellen the owner would be delighted to see you and at the same time you can view a number of my linoprints hanging on the wall

The coffee and food is excellent and the staff are lovely

 

Not been to Saltaire – you are missing a real treat

Saltaire Village is near Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. It is named after Sir Titus Salt who built a textile mill, known as Salts Mill and this village on the River Aire. Designed by architects, Lockwood and Mawson, Salts Mill was opened on Sir Titus Salt’s 50th birthday, 20 September 1853. In December 2001, Saltaire was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Apart from the main Mill building, offering a permenant

The Beatles – Sgt Pepper

This is my tribute the the fab 4 as Sgt Pepper and the release on the 26 May 1967 of their commercial and critical successful album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,  On release, the album was lauded by the vast majority of critics for its innovations in music production, songwriting and graphic design,

This series of 4 portraits is based on the album

Each member of the Beatles in mock military outfits:

John in Yellow

Paul in Blue

George  in Orange

and Ringo in pink

The 4 Limited edtion prints are all available on my Artfinder page www.artfinder.com/jaggerart

The image at the end is a Digital Print based on the original prints above and is available from My Etsy page www.etsy.com/uk/listing/588266667/sgt-pepper-beatles

 

 

Rufus

I wanted to do something for Red Nose Day this year and as the theme this years was dogs and cats – I cut this nice image of a dog a whippet I think ?
 
While I print all but my Cards in a limited editions – this one is 1 of 30, I like to re use the images as much as possible. so I didn’t want to cut Rufus with out a nose. I think the solution works well, the black is a full image and the Red Nose was applied as a full circle of red over the black nose. I did leave it a bit late so cut and printed them over a couple of days and sold them to friends and business colleagues, I would like to thank my BNI group the High Flyers for the generosity.
 
I sold 12 of the Rufus print and a few other prints and cards and all the money raised £185.00 was sent off on the night to a very worthwhile cause.

Thank you, those people who bought a print

 

Keith Richards

 

Keith Richards makes a great subject for a lino print, all those lines on his face.

 

The image is 200mm high and 150mm wide, I start with a photo import this into photoshop and play around with the colour, brightness, contrast and polarize the final selection.

 

I trace over this image and then using the trace as a starting point draw over the trace – depending on the lino the trace is hardly there.
I dont like to define much more than these guide lines and then start cutting, I tried out using a red wash over the pen work for the first time and think in future I will adopt this technique as it is easier to see what you have cut.

 

See the images above

Boba Fett

 

Boba Fett is an iconic image from Star Wars and this is my Lino cut and Print

The image is 200mm high and 150mm wide, on Japanese Masa 89g paper in 3 colours, paper is 265mm x 198mm

This was my first attempt at a 3 colour print, I wasn’t brave enough to do a reduction cut, I am working on a poppy print and plan to try out the reduction process on this. A 3 colour print means 3 Linocuts one for each colour, and registration – this is a big deal, printing the first colour in this case the yellow, waiting for them to dry, printing the second colour the turquoise blue colour, waiting for this to dry and then printing the final Brown colour.
I lost a few prints at each stage, and realised that registration is a lot harder than I thought it would be.

Next time I need to plan more, be more accurate with my registration and cut away more of the areas that I don’t want to print. But its all a learning curve.

Out of the first batch of printing a think I managed to get 8 that I would be happy to sell and 7 that I have scrapped