Observational Sketching for my Linocut Printmaking

My prints begin with sketching and photographing out in the landscape. Here I am in North Yorkshire and County Durham collecting material using Procreate on my Ipad alongside sketches on paper and photographs.

[@cacollie]

What fun!! And I share your discomfort with balance and heights...but am glad you persisted in this case!

[@nikond90ful1]

Thanks for the video Laura. loved the sketches. Please show more of this. It's been a long time since I've been at High Force. There was a lot more water then. Keep safe and stay well.

[@simonedoherty6195]

Thanks Laura, a great insight into your methods of creative process that help you towards your wonderful prints. Very inspiring!

[@Skarta]

Brilliant video and subject to talk about its lovely to see this part of your creative process. I struggle with this side of it and how to transform what is actually there in the landscape to what to include in my sketch/print. Thank you x

[@erichludwig4987]

Hi Laura, what an unexpected surprise. Some years ago we visited our daughter who works in England, and she took us on a tour to that beautiful High Force waterfall. I took some fotos and made an etching print at home, but I always struggle with trying to put to many details in it. Your way of converting real landscape into great prints is very inspiring and I‘m learning a lot. Greetings from Germany.

[@annahodson6686]

I really appreciate this so much! I am improving with my linocut skill, but I really struggle with what to print. I’m not a natural drawer and find it hard

[@creativityworkoutsforartan6951]

I don't do so well with heights either. lol!

[@janethughes9589]

Totally sympathise with the fears - not sure-footed or comfortable with heights myself, and I’m also short (you’ll be ok there!) so often end up sliding down bits that other people stride down. As for the photos, I do take photos for their own sake as well as preparatory to drawing. But if find the rule is that a good photo per se rarely makes a good drawing or print - the rejects for purposes of posting for their own sake are almost always the ones that furnish useful art reference. If it can be a successful photo, I think that’s the right form for it. While drawing and various print techniques can elicit more elusive and perhaps more fundamental worth. Thanks for sharing!

[@Sombre666]

Hi Laura, no wish to detract from your excellent video, just thought you might like to know that your location was actually at the Strid gorge on the river Wharfe.

[@LauraBoswellPrintmaker]

Hi thank you - I did know it’s not the River Strid - but if I just said it was the Strid, it’s a bit confusing for those who don’t know the area - but thanks for clarifying 🙂