My ink mice to wish you Happy New Year.  Can you find all six?

Happy Christmas!

Inspired by Qu Leilei and the Eight Brokens, I had a go at collage.  Rather fun.

Delightful robins on snowy bamboo created by my Kingston Adult Education class.  Very  impressive that the learners could write “Happy Christmas” in Chinese!!

 

 

 

CBP Summer term 2020 now booking at Kingston Adult Education.

Here are some of the wonderfully expressive hens and cockerels that the learners created in Autumn 2019.

A very satisfying 2 days of Japanese woodblock printing with Laura Boswell at the Courtyard Art Studio.  Learnt a lot, though I am a long way off the elegance and subtlety of her work.  My kento leave a lot to be desired, and the first proof was just a bit messy!

Quite pleased with this effect, and the “chatter” in the moon is deliberate, if a bit blurred from over-printing – more practice on registration needed.  Wish I could remember how to get the stormy sky effect.

 

Had a great time in China, courtesy of Tansuo Travel – many thanks to Madison and Na for making this tour possible.

Saw the old and the new.

Fulfilled a long held ambition to see the gardens of Suzhou.

Had lots of opportunity for sketching, sometimes channelling Wu Guangzhong.

Found some good food.

And a message we can all agree with!

A great day of woodblock printing with Ralph Kiggell, at the Ashmolean.  I am pleased with this vessel, inspired by an Eastern-Han dynasty Hu from the Avery Brundage collection.  I didn’t try to do all the animals exactly, just to give an impression.