Viking ships

A few photos from a recent trip to Copenhagen by way of an introduction to a new set of prints inspired by the fragments of Viking ships found at Roskilde, Denmark.

The (almost) step-less Round Tower, built with this spiraling cobbled ramp, apparently so that King Christian IV could be transported to the observatory at the top in a horse drawn carriage.

The Maerske Building.

Off-shore windfarm.

Remains of Viking shop at the vikingeskibsmuseet

Viking Ships I Lino Print

Viking Ships II Lino Print

See my Folksy and Etsy shops for these and other original lino prints.

Upnor Dinghies

#DRAWAUGUST to #PRINTOCTOBER

#drawaugust sketch based on dinghies tied up on the River Medway at Upnor

drawing transferred to lino, one plate for the boat block colours
and the other for the timbers

Boat colours printed first

First carving of the timbers plate

Test print with markup

Block colour and 1st layer of grey for the timbers

Faro Fishing Village, Gotland, Sweden

I think I will occasionally use this space a place to give a bit more background to some of my work. The print I use as my banner and its pair seem a good place to start. Gotland is a large island in the middle of the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Latvia, Faro is the smaller neighbour clinging to its northern tip. There is real beauty here. There are delightful country roads deep-lined with wild flowers, strange marshy plateaux where small succulents cluster on the bare pink rocks, long sandy strands and stark pebbly beaches guarded by towering limestone stacks. It was a bright sunny day when we visited but there was a real sense of the deep bleak desolation.
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