TRILOBITE TRIARTHRUS

A4 Collage in green paper.

This trilobite was found in the Burgess Shale and illustrated and detailed in Stephen Jay Gould's 'It's a Wonderful Life'

I've also used text from Stephen Jay Gould's book in this work. I enjoyed the construction of this piece and wanted to make a big deal of the intricacies of the creature. I found that cutting and sticking tiny bits of paper did this well. The tentacles are a photocopied tin can.

A collage homage to trilobites.

Spent the rest of the day with bits of green trilobite stuck to my fingers. Not the look of chic sophistication women crave.

THERIZINOSAUR - LINO PRINT - A4

The finished print.

THERIZINOSAUR 6 - FINAL CUT

Here is the finished piece of lino.

Next I'll use it to make a print. Results of which wont appear for a few days when the ink has properly dried. Wet ink on my scanner is not a good idea and I have no camera at present.

THERIZINOSAUR 5 - MORE CUTTING

Getting there...

THERIZINOSAUR 4 - NEXT FEW CUTS

It's a jungle out there.

This lino is proving quite soft to cut which is good. The surface seems too shiny to me to hold the ink that I need to apply later. We shall see...

THERIZINOSAUR 3 - FIRST FEW CUTS

The light grey bits are where I have started to cut the image out of the lino.

THERIZINOSAUR 2 - ADDING THE DRAWING

OK here's the drawing- in black felt pen - around which I will cut with a special lino cutting tool.

My Therizinosaur is more of a giant plucked chickenosaur. I've played on this a little and added cockerel like appendages.

Run chicken run...

Note that the writing is deliberately mirrored. This will appear the correct way round once printed- I hope-

THERIZINOSAUR 1 - LIVE FOR ART EVOLVED- LINO BLOCK

Today I'm going to be working live (or half dead, as I'm feeling right now) on a lino print of a Therizinosaur for ArtEvolved's live blog spot.

It's 9:45 GMT and a beautiful sunny day for a change. Lots of natural light which is good because I'm not going to be able to see my image at all well on this dark grey lino! I've not used this kind before- more plasticy than the original sort I used to use as at college.

I'm ready with my preliminary studies ( basically a skeleton I downloaded with a flesh outline...a cheat I know but time is short!) I've tried various poses with this animal but found that a straight forward profile will fit the A4 lino best and I want a nice simple image.

I'm not sure whose work the actual skeleton is so apologies to the artist- hope you don't mind me using this to get an overall shape to my beasty?