Monthly Archives: August 2009

Brown & gold collar

By Somhairle | Published: August 30, 2009

Photo by Nick Metcalfe. Brown leather with gold acrylic ink, modelled by my Elly.

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Monotyping

By Somhairle | Published: August 28, 2009

I’d been vaguely aware of the existence of monotyping before, but until I found an old copy of The Painterly Print in a Notting Hill second-hand bookshop I hadn’t really considered trying it out. It’s a good way to use up the leftover ink I dollop out onto my glass plate after doing a batch [...]

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Note to self:

By Somhairle | Published: August 9, 2009

Do not attempt to print anything out from Gimp. It Does Not Work very well. Render it to PDF first.

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One White Tree

By Somhairle | Published: August 4, 2009

I’m quite pleased with this one. The image of a white tree on a black ground is something I’ve been trying to do for a while now, and not managed to my satisfaction. I did this partly as an excuse to use the new white ink (Graphic Chemical printer’s ink – though having switched to [...]

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