Meet The Maker - Day 3 - New For Christmas

 The Meet The Maker Prompt for today is 'New For Christmas'.

I am super excited to get not only my brand new and refreshed website

up in the next couple of weeks

(I hope!)

BUT also my new shop...

It's been slightly overwhelming & confusing to me

to figure out but I am getting there, there's so much to work out!

I have decided to move away from Etsy and have my own shop on my own website AND the first batch of whimsical goodies I will be posting is a bunch of

my limited edition hand-pressed lino cut prints.

I honestly don't really know why I've never listed my linos,

I have always just sold them locally. But I have SO many new designs and people seem super enthused with them so yeah,

I am really anxious to start running the editions off and getting them listed

and then to keep doing so instead of just squirreling them away!

As always, because of my chronic pain life,

I always run slowly and behind everyone else,

but if you bear with me, these will be the first thing I list and I am hoping

it'll be in time for Christmas... I'll do my best! But in the meantime you can order

some of my colourful & whimsical goods from my Society6 shop.

Monday Inking

I can't promise you or myself that this week will be a productive one in the studio...

BUT I sure can promise you and myself that I sure will try my hardest to make it so!

Filling In Lines With Misa

I have to use a chemical transfer to get my images from the paper to my linoleum

and I do have to do so because of how very detailed my designs are...

Sometimes it works really well, sometimes only parts transfer or they do but very faintly.

But I don't mind when I have to fill bits in because I grab a stack of linos in the pipeline,

I grab my Sharpie, a snack and I sit with my girl Misa downstairs and we re-line everything.

If life is about being in your happy place as much as possible, this is certainly one of them.

Teela In Lino

I am so excited about this lino...

What do you think so far???

Flynn In Lino

I can't get enough of linos lately, I carve pretty much every morning.

Those who know my little family know right away that Flynn was my model for this one.

Loving The Linos

I've been carving new lino cuts more than anything else lately, I have 7 others already ready to go.

This new beauty is all done, I can't wait to show you, hopefully I'll be able to get some printed soon.

Tiny Chisel

Tiny lines...

Tiny tiny chisel.

A Simple One

I've been pretty sick with a flu so here's a teeny tiny super simple one...

Still just practicing but getting ready to move onto bigger & fancier!

Flower Garden Lino

A new lino cut...

I'll get it into the shop soon hopefully!

Dabbling and Bad Habits

I've been dabbling with printmaking again...

I tend to cut a bunch of blocks before I do the hand-pressed printing part,

it's probably a bad habit..I plan to do some actual pressing/printing this week hopefully!!

My dear friend and mentor Dave Carlin gift me a whole whack of his beautiful chisels

& some vinyl too, I think he was excited about my renewed interest in picking up printmaking again and it's so awesome to be using chisels that he actually taught me with in highschool!

Loving The Lino

I've been really enjoying some printmaking lately

 

 

I started picking up this old beloved medium again back in the Fall

(here's a couple shots when I was working out in the cool air with Jaks enjoying the yard)

 

 

I think I'll be able to show you some hand-pressed prints next week...wohooo, I can't wait.