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| Typical Photo Mosaic © Fiona Howarth |
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| ‘Hand-lettering Western style’ © Peter Gander |
The top pic is one of my wife Fiona’s ‘Photo Mosaics’. A tessellated square of many squares, they are given as gift to loved ones to celebrate birthdays and suchlike and are comprised of the tiniest detail to the big things in life. They are part photo, part scanned original art. Fiona does the photographic squares and I paint mini originals for the remaining ‘favourite TV programmes, brand of jeans/custard’, etc. Some come along that are really nice to do, such as the ‘Alias Smith & Jones’ panel, above. The original lettering was rendered in pencil and watercolour on paper as it the paint can have a lovely inconsistency when used in a ‘scrubbing’ fashion. This was later superimposed onto a scan of driftwood that I had, with transparency allowing the background through slightly.
Crow II monoprint © Peter Gander Another monoprint study. This is essentially a sketch for a two-colour linocut that I plan to cut later ...
Using a heavy-duty craft (Stanley) knife to get rid of excess lino All off, then I bevelled the outer edge of the fish to avoid it catc...