After drawing my brother Des and Caroline's home, (a small drawing 15cm wide done in situ) I felt this style would be great to persue and wanted to work at doing something slightly naive. Someone in the village saw my church lino cut and asked me to do a house portrait for Sarah's birthday. Lino-cuts take forever, and we had a time constraint, so I thought about creating the lovely cut-feel by using rubber stamps for the windows and doing some naive flowers as one would have to do in a lino … [Read more...]