Post Nude linocut

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Lol i like it!!

Thanks Angi - you were very quick!

I think it is very witty, particularly the envelope and title, though perhaps it didn't turn out as a too aged model ! I tried to make something of the shapes (must be too small to be words) on the paper but couldn't and am still puzzling over the top left hand corner. Great to see your lino cuts - keep them coming.

Thanks Sian, yes, this one wasn't the aged model version ;) (And it's a wine glass top left). Thanks for stopping by.

Of course it is. That is why she is blotto.

A local art gallery, The Horsebridge Community & Arts Centre in Whitstable, where I will be exhibiting in May, has recently opened a new gallery (Gallery 3) and the curator Sarah Banville has challenged artists to produce an original work of art on a postcard. The local post sorting office is in danger of closing and in a double-edged benefit, the exhibition of tiny (A6) originals will not only make for interesting viewing for the public, but also for the lucky postman delivering the postcards en route to The Horsebridge. I already had a pack of Winsor & Newton Cotman 300gsm postcards with a semi-rough surface, great for painting watercolours on but not ideal for printing on, as the pitted surface needs a hard pressing to push the ink into them. (Thin paper is usually the substrate of choice for most linoprinters). I had to set the roller printing press so firmly in fact, that the lino left an embossed effect on the card. In the print shown, you can see the patchy areas where the ink hasn't made it. Anyway, thematically, I chose what some might argue is a literal take on 'Post Nude' - (I was considering an aged life model looking pensive about her past, too ;) A few props and a neat visual twist leave much for the viewer to interpret. What's your verdict? Seawhite of Brighton (UK) water-based ink on Winsor & Newton Cotman 300gsm postcard.