Animal Alphabet and Off Cuts

Have had a very busy couple of weeks, filled the kiln to bursting with ceramics, then got a cold and stayed at home drinking copious amounts of tea and eating biscuits, and finished off another paper cut stencil, which will be made into a screen print. It's an A-Z of the animal kingdom. I've tried to choose a mix of well known and slightly obscure creature. My favorite letter to do was M, where I chose Manatee, Mantis (praying) and Macaw. I'll print it at London Print Studios in September.

 After finishing the stencil, I was clearing up and ended up playing around with the off cuts, which I feel have loads of potential...not quite sure how yet, but I can't bring myself to throw them out! I concentrate so much on the positive stencil image while I'm creating it  that I forget about the negative by-product images until it's time to sweep them up....

Have printed my new Alphabet of Winchester, with a different local landmark for each letter. It was a good change from cutting out street maps- if I make a mistake on that I'll have a lot of people wanting to know why I left out their street! The Alphabet has some landmarks you'd recognise straight away, (if you are familiar with Winchester that is) and others that take a bit more working out.