Allison Brebner

The Tiger.
A few of the lino cuts that have been created by Allison and carved by John to illustrate our next artist book called "The baby and the tiger". A famous Korean story teller (Eun Ae Kim - Kaitlyn) gave this story to Allison when we attended the International Artist Book Exhibition in Seongnam City, Korea. Our grandson is 15 months old and loves books. Our plan is to create this book for him in English and at the same time translate the book into Korean and Chinese. In our research we have found that this story is a traditional Chinese story as well! Leo's mother Debra is Chinese, from Nanning.

Allison Brebner

The mother and the crying baby.

Allison Brebner

The fox.

Allison Brebner

The bear.

Omanu School - Teacher workshop.

Standing up to carve accurately suits some people. Notice two hands on the carving tool. Tool held at about 20 degrees with a bench hook in place.

Omanu School - Teacher workshop.

Omanu lino printing - my best prints

This is the start of the lesson, I am demonstrating to the year 5 and 6 class how to carve with these new carving tools imported from Japan. They are made from 2 high grade steels annealed together (sword steel) are VERY sharp and will hold their sharpness for a long time. My rule is to hold the tools with two hands on the handle. I carry plasters but I do not have an ambulance!
The cutting angle is between 15 and 30 degrees. We must use a bench hook.

Omanu lino printing - my best prints

Omanu lino printing - my best prints

Cliff Whiting's lino carving for Hatupatu.

This intricate lino carving depicting Hatupatu killing Kurangaituku's pets.
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Hatupatu killing Kurangaituku's pets

This relief print was printed on Homeprint's 8 ton relief press the yellowXpress 8000 on dampened 310 gsm incisioni paper using Nova 'green' oil based ink made in Germany.
This print was exhibited at the famous Maori Art Fair in Porirua.
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