mathw
mathw.bsky.social
mathw
@mathw.bsky.social
Programmer, linocut printmaker, aikidoka, early and folk musician, cat person, he/him
A wonderful week in Kirkcudbright on a linocut course with @lauraboswellprint.bsky.social

She's an excellent teacher, and I have a load of new ideas to take away and work on. This is my finished print, a two block reduction based on a view near Castleton in the High Peak.
May 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Anya's had enough #cat
May 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A happy drying rack this morning with another layer going on my #linocut landscape. Next layer: not grey.
April 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Next layer on my #linocut! Pondering where to go from this point. One thing I love about reduction prints is the ability to change direction a bit at every single stage. I could even not cut anything and just add more inking for the next layer if I wanted! I don't think I'm going to do that though.
April 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Getting along with this little #linocut. I don't like the clouds but I'm persisting to practise other aspects. Next layer goes on tonight!
April 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Hello BlueSky, my #cat says hi
March 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This block nearly ready to be printed. Hopefully this fine gentleman will print nice and cleanly. For some reason I'm always more nervous printing black than if I'm doing a layer in a reduction print. #linocut #reliefprint #workinprogress
February 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
February 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Printing with a very thin layer of Payne's Grey relief ink today. A different effect to mixing with extender. This little experimental #linocut is nearly done!
February 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Changing the foreground design for my current little #linocut with the aid of a red Chinagraph pencil. Can't get the original Indian ink marks off the block, so I just have to go over them with something I can tune in to while I'm cutting. Speaking of which, bring out the gouges!
January 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
A new #linocut begins! Layer one is never very clear but it's always good to be filling up the drying rack again.
January 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Because today is incomprehensibly awful, enjoy this cat. She doesn't know what's going on. I wish I didn't sometimes.
January 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We all have the best cats
January 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I realised I didn't post this print to BlueSky when I finished it. An imaginary landscape, just trying to ease myself back into finishing prints rather than ditching them halfway through in disgust. Reduction #linocut in oil based inks (Hawthorn and Cranfield) on Fabriano Rosaspina.
January 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
One #cat, back from the cat hotel and very pleased to be back on my lap and restricting the blood flow to my legs once more.
January 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
So who signed off on the YouTube Music recap design? I get that they can't just copy Spotify's but this is simply hideous. Also little of its analysis makes any sense, it seems very biased towards the second half of the year and just very confused about folk music.
November 21, 2024 at 4:08 PM
I've not really been active here yet, but on this autumn morning I'm appreciating my cat, Anya. Bluesky, meet Anya.

She's enjoying the warm bit of floor where the heating pipes are. I'm trying not to stress the aching muscles in my core from last night's aikido class.
November 14, 2024 at 9:05 AM