Wallasea Island RSPB/SWLA project – short-eared owl printing
More owl printing, jumping up in size for this one.
short-eared owl monoprinting
Unusual day where I managed to persist with the same ingredients for 3 monoprints… usually ink misbehaves, or the press does something untoward…. but today free to just try different things. Using small rollers, brushing and playing with the balance of the three colours. Somehow replicating the freedom that I might have when scribbling in…
Wallasea Island RSPB/SWLA project
Not long back from Wallasea Island RSPB/SWLA project. Earth dug out from under London has been shipped to the Essex coast not far from Southend. It is being used to raise the level of the ‘island’ A huge area raised by between 3 and 5 metres. Sculpted to create lagoons, pans, ditches etc this should provide a…
mini meadow 2014 – other insects
I’ve already covered the bumblebees in separate post Butterflies common blue butterfly – first seen on 27th may feeding on the cut-leaved cranesbill. (see the yellow rattle post for more about common blues) meadow brown on rattle pods – ink pen – A6 sketchbook Meadow brown & Ringlet – didn’t keep much record of numbers…
mini meadow 2014 – birds
Highlight of the year birdwise was this cuckoo on 1st may. Seemed extraordinary… in continuous rain I kept thinking I could hear cuckoo from the studio, but couldn’t believe it… thought it might be someone playing around with speakers. Took a very long time to track it down to the top of beech tree, well…
mini meadow 2014 – bumblebees
31 Mar 2014 buying the bee id app. By NatureGuides Ltd. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bumblebees-britain-ireland/id657077156?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D8 having seen boldly marked bumblebee this morning. Seems like it is Bombus hypnorum the tree bumblebee. One of the 6 commonest spp. Probably a queen… very black abdomen with white tip… ginger thorax the most striking feature. Following on from this I started…
mini meadow 2014 – yellow rattle
Second year of yellow rattle action on the mini meadow. Proliferated hugely from the previous year. It seemed to do best where there were concentrations of clover. 28 Mar 2014 – yellow rattle rife amongst the clover I experimented with cutting plugs from the most dense area of rattle and planted them in areas of allotment and…
mini meadow 2014 – common spotted orchids
I’ve promised myself that I would document the development of the mini meadow on our allotment… so a little series of posts that will be more natural history than art in content. Until 2014 there had just been a couple of common orchid spikes up on the plot. These are showy and easy to spot even early…
Drypoint & Monoprint workshops
I’m doing a couple of workshops during the annual Society of Wildlife Artists exhibition at the Mall galleries, London. The first will be assisting Bruce Pearson on a Drypoint course on the 2nd November. Then on the 9th November a Monoprint course with Kim Atkinson. Drypoint – With Bruce Pearson and Greg Poole Sunday 2nd November 2014…
