The Blackberry Harvest

From 12 Views of (Glastonbury) Tor… Another print for the 2015 calendar is done – this one was printed from the plate I featured in my post on ‘imaginary drawing’: https://nancyfarmer.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/drypoint-and-imaginary-drawing-more-views-of-the-tor/. That post shows me in the middle of creating the image on the aluminium plate, with sandpaper, burnisher and pointy tool. All that guesswork… but I am quite pleased with how this one came out now. Sandpaper is my new favourite thing, which is odd because having been a jeweller I used it for days on end and never discovered a liking for it before! Here is the Blackberry…

Max’s Rats

…being the rats belonging to Max of course, not a statement that Max is Rats 😉 Another birthday, in Spelling Animals…

Herne, Pan and the Weather

…more views of Glastonbury Tor Even gods and spirits of nature get fed up with the weather sometimes, though I admit I missed a trick on this one. This is another for the 2015 calendar ’12 Views of the Tor’, and the sketch was done on about the 1st of January. A few weeks later I would have thought it more appropriate to put this pair in a boat, as Somerset seems to be rapidly filling up with water. They didn’t call Glastonbury the Isle of Avalon for nothing… So, apologies to local readers: this will not seem quite as…

Spelling Animals: the cats are back!

Shockingly, I have never done a Spelling Animals card for the other half before, so it seemed about time. Especially as he is impossible to buy for, and even more especially anything as a surprise…

Drypoint and imaginary drawing… (more Views of the Tor)

I am in the process of creating the plate for another print for my 2015 calendar, “12 Views of the Tor”. This is another one that I have decided to complete entirely in drypoint, so I thought I would take a break and show you some of the fun problems with drypoint… First the sketch: Harvest time, but the blackberries are proving hard to steal… the hapless fairy looks like she will loose her stocking, if not her dress and half her haul! When I roughly shaded the Tor and its tower in dark behind the main subject it was…

If King Arthur was ever here, he’s been eaten…

Another image for my 2015 calendar: “12 Views of the Tor”. This one I printed last week, and I have two more prints done today to show you in due course. In my initial gathering of ideas for views of the Tor, I scribbled down “what’s under the Tor?”. If memory serves correctly one legend has it that King Arthur sleeps beneath Glastonbury Tor, and will awaken when needed. Another story says the monks of Glastonbury Abbey found his body in the Abbey grounds late in the 12th Century, but carelessly Henry VIII lost this vital piece of evidence during…