rembrandt's prints

 i love these how this was done videos! 

william blake's printing

 what a brilliant thing to get into! i remember a time, going to vienna years ago and not having previously been taken with the wake of egon schiele, sitting in the leopold museum (?) thinking, i could draw like that. then picking up my sketchbook and altering my process immediately. and still, if i'm feeling i can't make up my mind what to do, copying a schiele is just a lovely wait to settle my mind and go off at a tangent. this guy, tho, takes it to a whole other level! 

michael phillips again. same thing but more detail. and close ups! 

i'm just a pencil

 super worthwhile watch. love the connection to form rather than self. and while i'm super happy jacob samuel got to make a living out of this, the idea that you make what you make, that you get to work and collaborate with other people is fundamental to what i've done most of my life. it's true, of late, i've given up, more or less, on the collaboration, although i'm still communicating at a very low level, but i'm still making, still exploring. and giving up that notion of art as work (i have work, i've done that and i like to think that, on my day, i've been really good at it, but that's a different thing) and accepting it rather as a means of life. love this. 

kirstie behrens

 

i first came across kirstie behrens' work at the watermill in aberfeldy so it was great to come across again (and more of it!) in pittenweem. her prints seem to encompass places and pieces of landscape i'm very familiar with yet capture something of the intangibles that keep me going back

kunihiro amano

there's always corvid love here so here's this from kunihiro amano

thabo motseki

every so often i'll come across an artist that just opens my eyes to a whole new set of perspectives. such is thabo motseki. i'm astonished he isn't better known, especially in these internet days, rather than having to go and live in america or europe.

barry moser

this, by barry moser, isn't from moby dick but is instead of jonah, but it appears so often in moby dick illustration lists (as opposed to his actual moby dick illustration!) i thought i'd include it anyway.

as i'm doing this it strikes me that i haven't actually come across any female artists illustrating moby dick as yet (feel free to put me right). i was super keen to read emily wilson's odyssey when it appeared and it'd be interesting to see a female perspective on what seems such a male tome

wendy orville

big massive skies, big massive prints. wendy orville, transcendent landscapes

thomas amerlynck

belgian goodness from thomas amerlynck

toshihiko ikeda

i get the feeling if you were to unscrew the top of toshihiko ikeda's head bats and other sundry creatures would fly out. but it's a different world view for sure!

zhou hao

make it simple. make it simpler. which is exactly what zhou hao does and that's an ethos i can get behind

tetsuo aoki

i like tetsuo aoki's figures but i particularly like this image because, for me at any rate, getting these circular things balanced and looking natural is always tricky

linocut - reduction

i don't do much linocut any more because my arm's wrecked and when i do i much prefer hand colouring because it's simpler. and it doesn't mess with yout head as much! but this is a lovely wee video about the reduction process as well as the planning, time and commitment it takes to make this sort of thing.

eben goff

eben goff seems like a restless spirit, which to me is a nicer way of putting the phrase multidisciplinary practitioner. whateever he's about i'm loving these prints.

linocut using xcut xpress

been an age since a craft post. so here's this one (note - third of a series). i actually own one of these xcut machine and i love it. note though that the long bed he shows doesn't come as part of the xcut package so you need to order it.

amy buchholz

amy buchholz is another one of those who exists only fleetingly online but a google is worthwhile to see more of her work

anne moore

anne moore - prints, anstract, asemic writing - what's not to like?

takahiko hayashi

i could say loads about takahiko hayashi but better to check him out here and then do a bunch of googling. you won't be disappointed

käthe kollwitz

it's an odd thing that käthe kollwitz isn't more widely known. take five, tho probably more wisely ten, and have a wee google. you'll want a whole lot more time afterwards! a genuinely profound and important artist

kathryn polk

i can't tell you much about kathryn polk. i was immediately taken by the playfulness in these prints. great colours, great design but also the sense that there's another something, just beneath the surface