One final Anteater before Christmas.

The last print before my pens went down for Christmas.

 My truly extraordinary idea sketch. 

 Sketching out sitting or standing variations.

Went with standing.

 Getting hairy.

 Layering it up.

 Super rough photoshop mock up.

Running out of time - super close to going with a cop out. Moved printing days and freed up a few more hours. 

 Final composition in photoshop. Ready to print.

 Tongue down.

 Followed by body base colour.

 Layer three - brown.

 Final Print.

 Ant close up.

Print wrapped and delivered to Studio 73 for Christmas Shoppers.

New magic cow colourway

Printing the magic cow.

Got the train back from Rye in the morning, quick dash back to the flat from St Pancras to swap case with bag of paints and straight back out again to head for the Studio. Swung past the print shop to get my positives printed, first fail of the day/another lesson learned - you can't print full bleed - 5mm cut off. Bummer... couldn't print the A3 Image on A2 instead as they didn't stock acetate in that size... I'd only just ordered the mini paper the morning before and had no idea if it had even arrived. Printed small version with fingers crossed for a paper delivery. Managed to stay calm. Then got half way down the high street to the print studio and realised I'd left my big bag of paint and memory stick at the print shop.. not a good start. :)


Got in eventually and someone fixed the counter balance on the bed I was working on for me. Happy days, no more bruised shoulder holding it up while loading paper or being on constant alert for the wooden stick slipping and getting smacked on the back of the head.

 Yellow layer: Super tight registration. Made sure I had everything ready this time before getting started. No 'oh shit I forgot to make the registration tabs!' moments with ink down on the screen. First full bleed print. Wanted to give it a whirl. Apparently it's easier to print on bigger paper and cut down to the edge... oh well...

 Second layer down with no major problems :) I'd forgotten that overlaying colours changes them.. gives print a three colour effect with blue on yellow in the centre.

 The joys of the scrap paper box!! Cow over surprise penis pattern! Sent this one to my mum :) She was amused if a little surprised. Told her I'd added a little extra last minute detailing.

One colour version. Can't make up my mind if this is better.


Finished printing at nine, headed into town to grab something to eat and had cow pulled out for examination at the dinner table. Not good - apparently colours are wrong, head too small, is it a transgender cow?? Confusing male and female attributes. It went on... Magic cows are apparently not to everyones taste.

Down to Rye to get my head together with a sideline in making horrible things.

Decided to head down to my mums for two days to try and chill out a bit. Did some crazy packing at 1am and ended up taking the kitchen sink with me for 2 nights. Had to get some drawing done to print again on Friday having re booked a session and decided to bin the chicken pigeon.

Got reacquainted with Poumpee.

Who was being her usual helpful self.

Went out and about for a bit to check out the local gallery. Some pretty pimp looking screenprints on display. Not a mis registration in sight - had a bit of a mini internal wobbler with recent pigeon cock up in the back of my mind but got over it.


Didn't get any pics of the screenprints too close to the desk but took a few of the lino prints up stairs.

I like the idea of collaging a base layer before printing over the top. The artist has used foil here which I'm not sure would work if you were using water based inks. Thinking of playing around with it though, bit like chine colle prints I had a look at when I did a etching course a year back. 

 Nice colours in this painting. I love orange especially when it's tangerine.

 Some nice mini houses.

Went back to the house and toyed with a cow head from the British Museum for a bit, until Fiona (the mother) said it looked like it was suffering from flowery flatulence. Great.

Instead I moved on to creating something truly horrendous. 

BLEUGH!!!!!!!!!


Went back to the winged cow, managed a crappy mock up before giving up for the day mainly because tasty fish dinner was on the cards. 

Final Cat Prints.