Owls

Why are owls so beguiling? For me, hearing them outside the house in the dark is a tucked-up cosy, secret thrill: 'listen...they're here....'

Peter Doig sprung another surprise: a couple of lovely aquatinted etchings of owls, just dashed off this year. This one is subtitled Boscoe.

Owl (Boscoe) (2013) - Peter Doig

I really liked the fact that he'd structured the thing so differently. Here are my sketches of his two. I couldn't find the right-hand one on the net.

So I scribbled a couple (one 'positive' one 'negative'), much more cliched than PD's.

Then I hacked away at some Adigraf to give me a version, using some linocut tools, below with a tryout.

And here's a finished version. And thanks must also go to Olwyn Pearson, whose work made me realise that a dark print on a bookpage worked really well. Thank you, Olwyn.