West Mersea - Beach huts and boats

I have an 'Art and Craft' market booked in a week or so on West Mersea.  

As usual I have all my best ideas at the last minute. Hopefully I will have enough time to print them, get them mounted and framed..... I'd better get on and finish the drawing, cut the lino, dampen the paper, the ink........ Ooooh..... Just getting ahead of myself there....

 

The first is an idea for a print of the beach huts on the island, a popular subject.... Hopefully profitable too..

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 These are for another little project, a work in progress you could call it....Don't know which way to go with it yet, bunting, a book maybe?? Or just a set of little boat'y prints...  Sail boats and traditional rigs 

(Rigs = sails)...

On Saturday I braved the rain... It was pouring down... I got SOAKED!  I went to the launch of  'The Essex Print Club.  They only have a facebook page so far... More information as soon as I have some... It could be very interesting..

Winkle brig

Winkle Brig

Working on two new collagraph plates today

 Barnacle Goose 

The reason for making this collagraph plate I read this -  

The barnacle goose gets its name from an old notion that it began life in a shell, growing on a seashore ‘barnacle tree.’ 

How could I resist making a Barnacle goose plate.. Just need to get on and finish both of these plates, between making ginger bread biscuits and the washing... What shall I do first?... Biscuits... They are in the oven.. Smelling delicious...