Patterns in the Ivy

Magpies are a perfect embodiment of the wonderful in the mundane, something I love to celebrate.

Grass snake. Aquatint etching with roulette and burnisher touches.

"The ridge". Monotype.

A picture I tried to do as an aquatint last year, but failed miserably with the wind movement. Monotype is a much better (or at least, far easier) fit for it, with the ink wiping effect.

Monotype, and two ghost prints.

Monotype, and its ghost print.

My greeting card for 2025. Hand-printed 5-color reduction linocut.

Continuing my buzzard monotype frenzy. At this scale this technique is absolutely perfect to render the feathers of this bird. I can't wait to do more of them :D

I really love the experience, much more than I expected, to the point that it's becoming a real series that I'm eager to continue.

My teacher side resurfaces really quickly during this kind of events :) Most of the people I share the workshop with hate practicing in front of a public, but I love it, at least explaining the processes and showing the printing part.

This is a kind of homage to him that I made yesterday. Five hours alone in the workshop from blank plate to test print, trying not to overdo it, just letting it flow. I used an old sketch close to his favorite subjects and the same technique as his, aquatint only, although light-years away from the fantastic richness and subtlety he gave to this medium.

Spending most of my free time these days framing prints to prepare a small (very small) exhibition. I'm having more fun than I thought, finding the right combos with all these second-hand frames that I accumulated along the years… So much for the consistency, but I think that's my lost cause :)

Some brush pen and watercolor sketches of ~5 min poses made during life drawing sections in the past few months. Trying to keep things light and quick.

I've been spending workshop days lately revisiting some fav old plates to get cleaner and more consistent prints (and using the little embossing token I recently made :)). I never gave enough love to this one at the time of its making, I'm happy with how it went this time.

I know it's just anthropomorphism, but I love its introspective look in this picture. Probably it *was* scared even if it didn't show any visible sign. It didn't look injured in any way either, could have taken flight at any moment. I'm a bit puzzled by how it went, I just hope it wasn't a too stressful moment for the bird.