Went swimming in the morning and then walked with Lola. The weather is very nice today – I even took off my gloves and Lola’s jacket. The carve I am posting is from yesterday: I love the thin lines that are possible to carve on lino. The printing is a bit imperfect, but that’s ok.

Before I forget to post… here’s one from yesterday. I used the stamp from few days ago and removed some more lino, so I think it looks better now. I printed in yellow and magenta first, but it was screaming at me, so I added a few black prints on top. I really like how…

And I missed a post yesterday. Cannot say why. Anyway, this is what I did: Carved a bigger piece of lino. This is one inch. My usual size is 2 cm. I really like printing with printing ink because the colors are bright and strong. I also very much like carving soft linoleum. So much…

Someone suggested yesterday on IG that glueing my lino to a cork may help ease the printing, so that is what I did today. And it worked. I do plan a bigger carve for tomorrow though. We went for a walk in city park today. The weather is very nice lately, cold but sunny and…

Here’s another try at lino carving and printing. Lesson learned: I need to carve bigger pieces because small ones are almost impossible to print. I love how black this ink is. I could never achieve this blackness with stamping ink.

Today I received my order of art supplies. I have some new lino to try, some new carving tools and printing ink. Here’s the first attempt at printing with real printing paint. Of course I had to get a neon magenta 😊. Printing was not easy because my brayer is dirty and my two new…

One way to help me keep up with blog posts is writing a reminder. I can still forget to look at my list though, but I am hopeful 😊. I carved another stamp today. I could not decide on the design, which is visible on the photo. 😂 We went for a short walk. It…

It’s Saturday but I managed to squeeze in a quick stamp. Now it’s shopping time…

It’s Friday. I decided to go swimming once a week. On Fridays. So I went swimming today. The weather is awful, the fog didn’t lift, so it remained frozen and dark. No walk. Lately, I used to walk with Lola every day around noon. It was good for both of us. Not so today. We…

Somehow I feel like continuing the pattern carving. It’s a bit unusual because previous years I was kind of fed up with carving when January came. This feels ok now, so I will go with it. Here are the first two carves of January: I would like to do more watercolor painting this year but…