Personal: Customer Photo

Recently, I sold one of my lino prints to a very supportive first time customer of mine who has been very pro-Emma Pryce Illustration on Facebook (which I appreciate greatly!) She told me that she loves the sunflower lino print and had been waiting until she had enough money to buy one.

She then sent me this photo of the framed print in her home (with her additional amazing decor!)

Thankyou Charlie!



Lino Printing: Wedding Gift

Back in July, two of my very good friends got married in a beautiful ceremony in Norfolk and I was lucky enough to have been a bridesmaid. The wedding had a very English Garden come Tropical Paradise theme!

(photos courtesy of Naomi Goggin Photography)

Pineapples and cacti were prominent features throughout the day (and the invites!) so I thought it might be interesting to make a lino print of a pineapple cactus for them!

In case you have never come across a pineapple cactus before, this is what one looks like...

My lino printing skills are pretty limited and I am, pretty much, self taught after having not done much lino printing over the past 10 years, so my outcome wasn't as crisp as I had first intended it to be but, nonetheless, I was quite pleased with the finished result. It is not a completely clear image, but I think it has an interesting quality to it in that the majority of the image is black with just a few white lines peeking through to create this cactus.

I then framed the image in a bold frame to brighten up the blackness of it all! I think they liked it!! Or, at least, I hope they did!



Lino Printing: Midnight

So, I've actually really taken to lino printing and can't wait to learn some new skills and tricks so I can make even better results.

I've been playing around a bit more with my linocut kit and produced a little scene I've named 'Midnight'...

I'm still sometimes getting confused with which bits I have to engrave and which bits I have to leave...but it will get there!! I really love how even the tiniest little groove you make in the lino can create line and texture. I also LOVE how each print is different due to the pressure I put on it, or how much ink is on the lino. I think it makes it one special and individualistic!

I have put framed versions for sale in my Etsy shop.



Lino Printing: Flower Tester

So, uni work has been handed in and we're all just sort of waiting around for the show to happen and our results to come back... so there's a whole lot of free time which, over the past few months, I haven't really been use to!

To combat this, I decided to buy myself a lino printing kit! Now, I haven't done any sort of printing for about 10 year, since I was at college, but I wanted to take myself out of my comfort zone and away from the sort of illustration I'd fixated on for so long during my final major project.

And I actually really enjoyed it!

I went for a simple flower design for a first try! But I think it actually looks quite sweet, would maybe make a nice pattern? I also tried printing on some brown paper to see what that might look like...

And then framed one to keep so I could look back on it if I ever improve!!!