Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Linocut geeks - John Peel illustration

Here's my illustration of John Peel - the latest portrait in my Geek Heroes series of linocuts. I've also done Jarvis Cocker and Benedict Cumberbatch. All three are available from my Etsy shop. Let me know if you have any good ideas who else I can do (preferably British!)

John Peel illustration

John Peel linocut print

I used my lovely new ink roller for the first time for this. I bought it second hand but it's from Intaglio Printmaker originally. It's lovely and heavy compared to my Japanese rubber rollers and it has a wider diameter which makes it easier to ink the block in one go.

Linocut illustration of John Peel - close up

John peel linocut print and block

I had fun with the positive/negative areas of the football shirt and the headphones. Hopefully he's instantly recognisable from these alone! I'm trying to avoid making these portraits too caricatured but John Peel (rest his soul) did have a rather large forehead. I hope he wouldn't be offended.
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4 comments:

  1. Rainbow Vintage Home17 April 2012 at 09:53

    Love it!! Total hero, I cried like a baby when he died. What about a print of Joe Strummer?

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  2. Mrs Prink the Printmaker a.k.a Kerry-Jane Warner19 April 2012 at 08:42

    Love them all. Stephen Fry?

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  3. Nick Morley19 April 2012 at 10:54

    Thank you! To my shame I don't know much about Joe Strummer. Would he qualify as a geek hero? Stephen Fry definitely does and is already in the pipeline. I need some female geek heroes too!

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  4. Cat21 April 2012 at 00:44

    How about Carol Klein? She's my gardening geek hero, plus she'd make an amazing print.

    Another bloke would be Alan Turing surely, or how about Charlie Brooker?

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