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Thanks @hurricane_run!

Aww, thanks folks! Sorry I’ve been away a lot, and thank you to everyone who’s bought my art!! I have been as busy as a bastard though. Knackering but ace fun!!! And yes, there’s so much ink flying about, my studio looks like Bobby Sands’ cell. (Joke for the kids, etc…)
Hope you all have an ace one, and I can also say that Sunday Lucifer is dead. Quit the booze. It won’t get me like I thought it would. But boring, but better than liver failure.
Cheers!

Thanks @hurricane_run!!

Yeah, I can definitely help there at http://www.hupalinocut.co.uk

I love that Otter frame!! That’s the nicest frame I’ve seen it in. Really happy to see that!

Thanks man! An otter will be swimming to you in the morning!!

I’ve had a couple of people asking about the Otter Linocut, when it is for sale and such.
I have it on my website now, which is http://www.hupalinocut.co.uk and the direct link to the Otter print is HERE:
The Otter Linoprint

Thank you so much to everyone who has asked about my art and what I am doing now. It’s been amazing. Thanks!

Thank you!!

Just been working, but yes, the Otter is going up for sale this week. I have three copies at £180 each - it’s a large print for Linocut, 30cm x 40cm on a paper size of 40cm x 50cm. I’m printing another set this week. They will be limited, mainly because they are difficult to print!!

We cover the Dobhar-chú myth on Kraken Cove, it’s a monster Irish otter so big that it can punch through a horse. What’s not to love?

Give that man a Shergar…

I’ve retired - I got a near terminal case of Seabiscuit Wrist.

I feel a bit of a prick posting that, as I’m professional Linocut printer now, but I did start off as just another knobhead forumenger so I reckoned it’s fair game.

I’ve not been on the forum much lately but here’s my latest Linocut print, The Otter.

It can be tough selling at markets, depending what you’re selling and where.
Some markets I tried I made almost nothing, but the yokel selling fudge at the next stall sold out (thanks, Doncaster). Other places I’ve made a really good amount. You need to pick and choose your markets to fit your product & price point. You also need quality hardware if outdoors (professional gazebo, quality weights, good display set up, card machine). Got to work weekends which can be problematic, work outdoors in all weathers and you will sell nothing on very rainy days. But on good days it can be amazing, and it really suits me. Ironically, having a totally fucking awful job for 32 years makes most other jobs look quite attractive, be it selling art in Yorkshire market towns or wanking off horses for cash in front of a live studio audience. It’s all better than what I used to do. My top tips are to tolerate even the most nightmarish people with a smile, don’t sit on your phone for five hours and complain you didn’t sell anything, never start packing your stuff up until the very last second of the market and get a car bigger than a Fiat Panda. Good luck!

I didn’t realise those prints were going to a forumenger!! I would have offered discount!
Glad they got there safe, Jon, and thank you so much for buying!

While I make my prints ready for standard frames, on the whole, a professional framer really makes the print work. Floating a print with a good edge is a favourite of mine!

So glad you like it!! Thanks for the order!

I do have some sketches of Bogwanker, Scorcher & (I forget a bit now) but he was known as Devil but is actually Benny, my brother and fellow Kraken Cove podcaster. I’m or sure if anyone is interested in these drawings but I can post them and if any pervert is interested, I suppose a fiver a pop would be fun!

Thank you my friend. I really hope you enjoy your prints!!

There are three disciplines to traditional printmaking.
The artist, the carver, the printer. While you might struggle with the art, you have all the abilities of their other two disciplines.
My course would require the student to bring their piece of art or use a piece of art I supplied. It is a cutting and printing course, learning detail, technique, registration and colour. It is a printing course, not a pure artists course. You would smash it!

It’s a nice problem to have - also, nice to have a new line to expand into.
I forgot to mention the best place to find my stuff is either instagram @hupalinocuts or my webshop http://www.HuPaLinocuts.co.uk

Problem with framing is postage & risk of damage. I have done it, but packaging costs ramp up, and while plastic frontings are ok, glass is always much nicer but is a big risk for breakage.
Also, I’m really busy and a one man band. Packing and posting is a big part of my day (happily!!) but I have to also fit in printing, carving plates, drawing new designs and essential admin, and that has to fit in around me working two markets a week at locations sometimes 2 hours away.
Later on I will offer a framing service, but I need bigger premises and possibly a gimp/underling/house elf to assist.

Thank you, mate!! Your prints will be in the post tomorrow!

A Linocut workshop in the Shirkers Rest pub could be amazing!!!! Got an open invite there for some fun.
Thanks again folks - I’ve been so busy but it’s such fun. Me saying ‘I’m off to the post office!’ has almost turned into a household euphemism!