Rain, holidays, more printing.

Not been here in a while, work has been super-busy and my calendar is just crammed. We had six days off last week, but mostly rain stopped play. We cycled in the New Forest, saw a giant sci-fi anthill, took the Hythe ferry and saw gargantuan floating hotels scud by and dwarf us, and took the windiest open top bus round the Forest too. But mostly we tried to get the house together and just hung out doing not much, which were nice in their own ways.

Have been a little in the doldrums I guess, but have been trying to keep going with the print courses even though I've been feeling spectacularly uninspired - even trips to Lepe, Royal Victoria Country Park, Hythe and the New Forest yielded no useful photographs to work from.



Anyway, the last course I went on was "Drypoint and Monoprint: Inspired by Hockney's Landscapes". Well, I wasn't really very inspired by Hockney's landscapes. The iPad drawings and clashing colours, with monotonous digital lines and marks left me cold, though I liked the hawthorn bushes a bit. I did make some prints of a photo I took in the Isle of Man a few years back, of Bradda Head seen from Port Erin. These are the ones I like the most. I forgot to reverse the drawing for the larger print (Bradda Head should be on the right). Never mind, eh?