…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 appropriate as it might have five weeks ago, but here is one more for the calendar:
This plate was made in the same way as the blackberry-picking fairy of my post on ‘imaginary drawing’ – it is entirely in drypoint, with some use of sandpaper in the background first – coarse sandpaper on the slope of the Tor, and some finer sandpaper across the sky a little. After that I burnished out the scratches where I didn’t want them – on the scarf in particular – before completing the rest of the drawing with the Pointy Tool.
Art by Nancy Farmer 
Oh I really like that 🙂
Thank you! 🙂
…it’ looks just like that outside at the moment. Only, er, with a lot more water.
so cool
thank you! 🙂
I like pointy tools. I have many. Typical geeky printmaker. This is lovely.
Thank you 🙂
Yes I probably have more pointy and scratchy tools than I realize when I start digging out all my jewellery-making tools…
…have also an impressive selection of burnishers… and just one that I actually use.
Tools. I ove tools. That’s the only sort of shopping I like 🙂
would generally agree with you, but just went and bought 10 paving slabs for the garden and thought that was quite an exciting shopping trip too 🙂
ooh yes gardening stuff is good too. And books.
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