A while ago I bought a carving material new to me, called Soft Cut, which I bought from the brilliant printmaking suppliers T N Lawrence. I didn’t get on well with it at the time, as it didn’t suit my style of carving, but I decided to have another play with it this week, and now can report that I really enjoy it.
I’m working on a series of lino cut symbols at the moment, and the bold style works well with the Soft Cut. If I was doing anything more intricate, I would definitely use my usual eraser-based materials.
So far I’ve carved up two symbols, om and peace.




And I recorded a video whilst I carved out the peace symbol, so you can see how the Soft Cut carves and prints up here:
And here are the final finished pieces, which have digitally enhanced watercolour backgrounds – using the pieces of watercoloured card I painted during the play day with Jill.
These are both available to buy as prints, iPhone cases and skins, laptop and iPad skins and T-shirts at my Society 6 store.
There are a couple more symbols I want to carve in this series, so I’ll be back with those in the next week or so





















