Friday, May 11, 2012

Scuttery dandelion woodblock


Note the colour of the dandelion woodblock. 

You may think it looks luscious and caramel-ly. 

However it is known amongst us connoisseurs* in the LSAD print studio as 'scutter'.  It features prominently in our sets of prints and we have each come to admire the other's prowess in being able to mix a fine shade of scutter. 

This skill cannot be learned, it is an innate sense in which one must be almost able to smell the shite as one mixes the colours.  Only then can a realistic scuttery colour be produced.   

Not everyone holds it in the high esteem which we do but this does not concern us.  We are not scutter evangelists.



*  The marvellous Mags Codd and myself

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