So this project has been coming together nicely. See below the cut to see how the whole printmaking process went and hear me yak about it!

What started as a sketchbook idea was traced over, refined, flipped, transferred to some easy cut lino, carved, and then today we did some test printing! The first two are the proofs that came out first on dry paper. The second pair of proofs are on dipped paper. The third pair are on misted paper. I used some Bristol smooth because it's what I had lying around. I've also got some sheet watercolor (Either Arches or Winsor+Newton) but I haven't tried it yet. I used Speedball fabric oil-based ink. I feel like I need to go pick a printmaker's brain because it's been a decade since I did this and I don't remember what papers we used among other things. I now also need to figure out if my blotchiness is technique, if it's paper, and whether or not I would benefit from a small lever press. These were burnished with a combination of spoon and thunder egg brayer. Yes I said thunder egg I am just that unintentionally metal. It's like a sliced open geode except it's smooth agate instead of crystals so it's shaped very perfectly for what I needed today.

Secret of kells

Ben and Saoirse (Song of the Sea)

watching Cartoon Saloon’s movies isn’t enough I need to eat them

I felt the need to redraw Pickles with the Secret of Kells movie style (aka Irish cartoon style as far as I know it).

I drew over the scenes (I'm sorry not sorry, time is precious to a uni student and this was only out of fun), and added some minor changes so he looks more like this Irish lad. Went with the bathrobes since the character had a robe on too.

(I love how the og character of Secret of Kells had ear piercings, and nearly everyone in it too. It's now part of his culture💙)

(In the first pic, he's making- khm...well he uses herbs. In the original it's just for ink, but we all know what's Pickles doing.)

Also:

Brendon Small in 2006 bringing mtl's script to the table, colorized

I just watched Secret of Kells for the first time in the past few weeks and was delighted to see the Pangur Ban poem reference :D

Secret of Kells.... Good....... I mean everything by that studio is good.

The Monk and his Cat is a song by Samuel Barber as a part of a 10 song cycle of music translated from anonymous poems by Irish monks in the middle ages. [Wikipedia informs me theyre from the 8th-13th centuries.]

I think by far my favorite thing about Secret of Kells in particular is how much fun they have retelling history. The animations of the illustrated book at the end are from the actual Book of Kells, and you get little moments like The Monk and his Cat that they decided to add in just to make the world feel a little more real. Adore that studio <3

It’s their day!!💚🤍🧡

Decided to try my hand at those mermaid edits people are doing these days… with lesser known/popular characters. As you can see, they’re pretty clumsy but I’m still new at this.

So I finally finished this beast (well finally got round to posting it anyway)

…the whole thing in one frame..

some close ups of my fave parts ╭〻◕ `w´◕〻╮

my crochet pattern pixel map: in case anyone feels like making this as well... it took roughly me 45 hrs to crochet (not including having to restart bc I cldnt find the right colours Anywhere) but I'm not super speedy at crochet so..

Arcane/The Secret of Kells AU

Brother Viktor meets Brendan.

Did a fun Halloween drawing of our favourite wolfwalkers dressed as Brendan and Aisling from Secret of Kells!

Secret of Kells <3

happy father’s day

what better way to celebrate than doodle every iteration of that one character in every cartoon saloon movie that is always my favourite

Fridge logic: Pangur Bán's heterochromia

Somehow, it has escaped my notice until now that Pangur Bán has one green eye and one blue eye to symbolize the friendship between Brendan and Aisling. It was through Pangur Bán that Brendan met Aisling and formed a lasting connection. Aisling has green eyes, while Brendan's are blue.

Today's Lefty of the day is Brother Aidan from Secret of Kells