18 December 2024
Today, I remembered (again, while walking the dog) that on one of my first web sites, I’d written about a method for printing reduction woodcuts on an etching press. I decided to dig it up and add it to this site, in case it was useful to anybody. The original title of the piece was “Gladys McEvoy‘s way of avoiding creep”.
16 December 2024
While walking the dog yesterday, I remembered taking the photograph that makes this bad art pun. The firm, on Derbyshire Lane, now works under a different name.
I’ve also added the etching Second Wave to the Skimmers and Waves page. I started this plate in 2014, and have tried working on it a couple of times. The sky and foreground were darkened. It was finished last week.
15 December 2024
The Many States of Above Eyam is a set of pages showing the different stages the plate “Above Eyam” went through. I wouldn’t normally show how I work on a plate, but this one is different. I was so convinced that I had really nailed the image when I took the first print after a couple of etches, I couldn’t believe how deluded I’d been. I try not to overwork my etching plates, it seems to keep them fresh looking. This was different, it was a large piece of copper and I really liked the subject. The final image looks so photographic, I thought it would be good to show the struggle I went through.
14 December 2024
I photographed my colour woodcuts from 1998 – 2010. I’ve added these to the Colour Woodcut pages.
12 December 2024
“Skimmers”, a short video showing the inspiration for the woodcuts and etchings, was started yesterday and finished today. It is still a mystery to me where the stone could have been thrown from, and how we never noticed it.
8 December 2024
I’ve just finished working on a new version of the video for the Home Page of my web site. I’ve also separated the Woodcut page into Black and White Woodcuts and Colour Woodcuts. I’ll be adding more Colour Woodcuts as I photograph them.
5 December 2024
There’s now a very short video of me playing a fiddle solo with The Greasy Skillet Skiffle Band, live at the Brothers Arms, Sheffield, last summer. In Videos.
3 December 2024
Added the large etching “Sunlit Riverbank – Late Summer” to the page Rivers.
1 December 2024
I printed some copies of three smaller plates and added them to the site. “Chatsworth in Mist”, under Rivers. “Snow on Greaves’s Piece” and “Hope Valley, Mist” in Landscapes.
23 November 2024
I’ve added the page 5″ x 12″ Landscapes to the site. This is a series of etchings I’m working on.
I’ve also added the page Norfolk. I’ve only finished two etchings so far, but I’m working on a few more.
November 2024.
I’ve started the major update of the site. I’ll eventually make a new video for the Home page and get a lot of my work onto the site.