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Gatocielo @gatocielo.bsky.social · 3d

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · 3d

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

A historic roofline including a bottle shaped pottery kiln, and a tall slim chimney. On the left is the side of a white building with dark green-framed windows. The roofline is in layers, at the back is mid-orange which has the roofline itself, the next layer is a darker orangey brown, and delineates a wall, just below the centre line. The last layer, just below that, is a darker warm brown and represents the road.

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · 27d

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

A colour linocut of an old pottery factory, looking up at it in silhouette. The sky is light peach pink, the factory buildings include a bottle-shaped kiln chimney to the left and a tall narrow chimney just to its left, these are in burnt orange. A wall curbing from near bottom left to half way up on the right is in chestnut brown, with two receding lamp-posts top right. All the way down the left of the image is the edge of a white building, with dark green shapes for windows (these will change with the next layer)

This is the grey lino with the design from picture one carved in mirror image, the structure (composition) is the same, but the sky is carved away. Here, the part described as chestnut brown is inked in ready to be transferred to the print.

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · Sep 10

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

A hardback copy of a book sitting in its packaging- the book is Everything Will Swallow You by Tom Cox, the cover has an illustration of cliffs, sea and beach, with a figure on the beach, bare trees in the bottom right corner, a cottage near the foot of the cliffs, and curling marks in the sky to suggest gales. A black bird, maybe a raven, is flying inland.

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · Jul 17

Absolutely! Apart from anything else, cinnabar moth caterpillars.

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · Jun 11

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

A linocut print of the frontage of Stone Railway station, which is in fact a red brick building. It is two storeys high, in three vertical sections with high decorative gables on each. The windows and doors have cream- coloured stone surrounds, all of the windows are coloured black, and the doors on each section of the building are deep mid-red. To the left there is the end of the station canopy, in a lighter red, and to the right there is an engine shed with a black arched door.

This photo shows the palette that I used, which is clear plastic in a white desk, viewed from directly above. Just above the palette are some of the tubes of ink, lying parallel to it. Along the top edge of the palette, there are blobs of ink: bright red, grey, white, pillar box red, ruby red, burnt umber, black, Prussian blue, and a lighter mix of white and Prussian blue (mixed for the blue commemorative plaque near the station’s front door.) Below this line, to the left is the inked up lino block, with only the fine details left to catch the ink, such as the doors, windows and the plaque. To the right, the mixed inks and their individual narrow rollers: from top to bottom, ruby red, bright red, black-brown and very light grey, each rolled out in a thin line with the roller resting at the extreme right.

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · May 29

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

Tracing the drawing of the station for transfer to lino. The building has three similar sections, two storeys high with bowed arch tops at the gable ends of the roof. I think it’s Victorian, red brick with stone window frames. This is just a line drawing but the finished print will be in colour. This photo has the part-done tracing with a black and red striped pencil lying across it.

This photo shows the lino carved for the first colour with an ombré / graduated light to mid brown rolled across it. Places across it is one of the prints with the building shown in ombré light at the base and darker towards the top. The roller and palette is to the right, again with the ombré ink on both roller and palette, with neutral grey and brown blobs of ink and one bright yellow blob to the left of the mixed colours.

This photo shows the second layer, a rich orange-brown, printed over the first ombré layer. The lino block, covered in the orange-brown, is on a yellow patterned tray with card edges and masking tape to the left (this is part of my registration system to make sure the block is in the same place for each print). The paper had been peeled off the block and the ink has transferred to show the detail of the building beginning to appear.

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · May 20

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

An attempt at drawing a Spitfire propeller aircraft in pencil, from behind it. The tail-plane is in the foreground, a wing behind and the fuselage roughly sketched in-between both. Three of the propeller blades are visible at the front of the plane, and the wheels underneath are half drawn in as the were obscured by the grass that it was placed in. The pencil lines overall are quite faint.

A quick line sketch with sepia pen of a railway platform on the right, a train track from left bottom corner into the centre, leading to a steam locomotive which is on the track. To the left of the loco, there is the side of a big engine shed which takes up the side of the image from the centre to the top. There are roughly drawn trees behind it and the train. On the right of the train, there is a suggestion of station buildings, which I couldn’t finish as I ran out of time.

Another quick train sketch with sepia pen. On the near right is a boiler which is being repaired. It is a tall rectangular shape which widens as it goes up and is rounded at the top. There are various handles, bars, nuts and bolts attached to the front. This section takes the whole right-hand third of the drawing. The bottom of the right and centre is the ground, with a metal frame, and beyond that are an old wooden train carriage centre left, a small angular diesel engine in the centre, and in the background a large industrial engine shed which takes up the rest of the space.

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · Apr 26

I’m hoping to spend quite a bit of time drawing over there when I get opportunities, there’s so much scope on and around the site.

Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · Apr 26

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 side view of the Victorian flint mill with stone steps up to the first floor, green railings at the side and a tall, broad chimney rising behind the building. Brick built, with black-grey bricks throughout. There are spring-green shoots in the trees and bushes around it.

A view looking towards the tall, triangular-shaped brick chimney that contains the kiln, looking across a footbridge that has red railings either side. A factory building and straighter chimney stand to the left, and spring green shooting trees to the right.

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · Apr 25

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

A line drawing of cars in a car park, with a block of flats to the left, and a row of old terraced housing in the background. Black, red and blue pen lines to try to describe the space and boundaries better.

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · Mar 17

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...

Printing for the Kids

Art for the benefit of the next generation

open.substack.com

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · Mar 15

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

Four images in a block, top left is a black and white photo of two bottle shaped brick kilns covered in scaffolding, reflected in a canal. Top right is my unfinished pencil drawing from the photo, bottom left is an enlarged photocopy of it, and bottom right is a photocopy that I have drawn on, adding reflected lines on the water.

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · Feb 17

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

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · Feb 2

Brilliant, congratulations!

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · Jan 27

I’d been wanting one for ages, then they had a seconds sale!

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Vicki Jordan - printmaker @vickijordanart.bsky.social · Jan 24

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.

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · Jan 27

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

Two black and white line prints made from foiled card plates, which are shown side by side. They both show bottle ovens, bottle shaped chimneys which housed pottery kilns, in Stoke-on-Trent, UK. One (a landscape format image) is in the context of surrounding buildings with a road sweeping across the image, downhill from right to left. This one is a real location. The other is a made up, slightly crooked group of three with roughly sketched buildings either side.

This one shows the tiny roller press, it has a light blue plastic 3-d printed frame, and is clamped to my desk. The long white press bed has a serrated underside, the teeth run through the mechanism when the handle is turned. On the press bed is the print of the made up group of three bottle kilns and its foil plate, and a white felt blanket is folded back over the top of the press. There are scissors, pens, a plie of various rolls of tape and packets at the back of the image.

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · Jan 24

This about sums it up….

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jan 22

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · Jan 17

I’m getting Martinware vibes from this, it’s lovely 👍🏻

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · Jan 17

We’re right at the edge of the city so we have a bit of both, unfortunately quite a lot of the old pottery buildings that are still standing are in poor repair, so the looked after ones are much appreciated!

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · Jan 16

I just had a look at some images of landscape / buildings from the game and I see what you mean 🙂

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · Jan 16

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

Quick sketch of a former three-storey pottery factory, with two kiln chimneys sticking up through the roof

A photograph of the former pottery, with bright blue sky and varying shades of red brick, and a metal staircase diagonally across the structure.

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Mary Parker @dailawyrprints.bsky.social · Jan 1

Blwyddyn newydd dda i chi hefyd!

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Dec 24

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.

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