The Book of Lamentations continues with some examples that tie it to the previous and current book of printmaking process - the first plate is the Our Lady of Montevergine print that I was working on at the time. It was for the Etsy shop I was opening and is now up and running (link in bio) - the first sale I made was before I even listed it and was to an Eastern Orthodox priest working with the LGBT community. His print was a one off because he wanted his with touches of gold leaf. (The tradition with some gold leaf is that a layer of warm red clay is often applied as a base). Here I mapped that out with red spray paint that suddenly looked more soviet than I expected and the red version became my accidental favourite one of the image. I sold three of this image the week after the amazing Kitt Cherry (of Jesus in Love and QSpirit) published her recent article about this medieval legend - (usually straight-washed out of church history) of the Virgin rescuing a gay couple attacked and tied to a tree and left to die in snow. The next two are the rotatated crow images also toward the Etsy shop and the last one is simply Grizzly Geoff - for whom there is no explanation other than he was a gift from our lovely friends in Edinburgh and his gift tag ended up taking rebirth in my book. He is a fine figure of a man with his cropped hair, neat beard and patterned underpants despite his lack of hands or feet. #sketchbook #sketchbookdrawing #sketchbookdaily #linocut #linoprint #printmakersofinstagram #etsy #etsyshop #queerartist #queerart #ourladyofmontevergine #sovietposter #crows #corvidsofinstagram #patterndesign #grizzlygeoff (at Minster Court) https://www.instagram.com/p/CciHYYFMin_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
