#UrbanSketching yesterday in the Victorian market in Longton #StokeOnTrent with Stoke Urban Sketchers

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A quick sketch from the car while my daughter was at an appointment #UrbanSketch

I’ve finished this #linocut - it’s the former Price Kensington teapot factory in Stoke-on-Trent. It was going to have a lot more detail, but I kind of fell for the orange roofline silhouette #printmaking #StokeOnTrent #pottery #TeaPotFactory

My current #wip - a reduction #linocut of the old Price Kensington Teapot Factoty in Longport, #StokeOnTrent I think it’s just needing one more layer, maybe two. #BottleOven #BottleKiln

Aaand it’s landed @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Looking forward to reading it!

I’ve just completed this #linocut of Stone Station in Staffordshire - it‘s stretched my drawing and linocutting skills, inking could have been better. I need more small rollers! #StoneStaffs #printmaking #ReductionPrintmaking

Progress - I’m working on an architectural study-type reduction linocut of Stone railway station in Staffordshire UK. One more layer to go, spot-inking the windows and doors, and the platform porch. Much lino cutting to do! #linocut #printmaking #Stone #Staffordshire #ReductionPrintmaking

#UrbanSketching (sort of) at Foxfield Railway just outside #StokeOnTrent on Saturday, at their War Wheels event. Some winged vehicles as well as earthbound ones!

Eldest and I visited Etruria Industrial Museum in Stoke-in-Trent yesterday (just outside the city centre). Looking forward to visiting again to do some drawing!

A quick #UrbanSketch last Saturday from a supermarket car park in #StokeOnTrent

My #linocuts for the #ThoughtPressProject are now in their shop, raising funds for two kids’ charities, here’s my blog about the process, link to the shop at the end! open.substack.com/pub/dailawyr...

I’m getting back to this linocut development- I love scaffolding on things, but this one’s been confounding me, and I’d left it for a while. Yesterday I picked it up again and it’s going to get done this time! #linocut #wip #BottleKilns #drawing #printmaking

I’ve made a start on my #ThoughtPressProject print for this year, the theme is Sound and Vision, so I’m basing it on a @marillion.com concert photo that I took in 2022 here in #StokeOnTrent

Any UK printmakers on here fancy joining us on this year’s Thought Press Project? It’s a lovely thing to be a part of, with a great community & raising money for charity 😊 Message me if you’d like more info, or go to @thoughtpressproject on IG.

Tiny tetrapak drypoints on an Open Press Project roller press, first tiny steps! #drypoint #intaglio #OpenPressProject #printmaking

This about sums it up….

Starting to feel out the shapes and composition for another #BottleOven linocut, this time Roslyn Works, next door to #GladstonePotteryMuseum #PreparatorySketch #UrbanSketch #StokeOnTrent

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler and he said that the wild owls near the sanctuary where he worked worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

Any #printmakers using Discord? We have a growing community at Printmakers Chat discord.gg/YAJp9x9d

I completed this reduction #linocut of the Italian gardens at #TrenthamGardens in #staffordshire UK earlier this year, I think it was eight stages in the end.

An #UrbanSketch of the remaining #BottleOven at the former Price Kensington teapot factory in #StokeOnTrent - the site is being gradually restored which is wonderful!

This evening’s sky, imagine tawny owls calling in the field next to the park 😌

An #UrbanSketch of a roofscape in the town of Cheadle, Staffordshire. I used acrylic markers for the first time on thick black paper, it’s useful to have this as an option now, I like how it worked out!

a gentle reminder that you don't need to wait to be good enough to write or draw the things you wanna draw you get better through creating the things you wanna make, not by waiting to become better to make things

An #UrbanSketch of the former Falcon Pottery where #GossPottery was made in #StokeOnTrent It's now surrounded by the modern #PortmeirionPottery buildings.

My most recent #ReductionLinocut of Dolby Mills' bottle kiln in #StokeOnTrent It was a calcining kiln, (aka lime kiln) producing material for use in the pottery industry. This is one of my continuing series of linocuts recording the remaining 47 bottle kilns of the thousands that were here.