Animals mood board
Animals mood board
Woodcuts, linocuts and engravings of animals, collected for Seeds of Renaissance. Elements cut from these live in system/graphics/animals. See also moodboard/woodcuts/woodcuts-moodboard.
01 Fox sitting, linocut
A fox sitting upright and looking up, in solid black with a white chest, ear and tail tip left uncut. A few stray gouge marks around it. Grey paper. Source link: not yet given.
02 Two foxes walking, engraving
Two foxes trotting one after the other in fine broken line. Small, watermarked stock preview (vintageretroantique), so draft only. Source link: not yet given.
03 Swan with open wings, linocut
A swan with an S-curved neck and wings spread, solid black with white cut feather lines. Source link: not yet given.
04 Bird carrying a flowering stem, linocut
A blackbird diving with wings raised, carrying a long looping stem with small bell flowers in its beak. Solid black with fine grain in the wings and tail, on clean white. Source link: not yet given.
05 Snail, wood engraving
A snail reaching out with its horns, the shell in fine engraved lines spiralling inwards and the body stippled. Cream paper. Source link: not yet given.
06 Barn owl in a frame, woodcut
A barn owl standing on a rock, face-on, inside a double-ruled frame and signed "H·R". Strong outline with short flecked cuts for feathers. Grey-brown paper. Source link: not yet given.
07 Barn owl in flight, rubber stamp
A barn owl seen from above, wings swept wide, in fine pen-like line with dotted feathers. Printed on a wooden stamp block. Source link: not yet given.
08 Bear standing, woodcut
A bear up on its hind legs, looking up, in solid black with the wood grain showing as fine white streaks through the fur. White paper. Source link: not yet given.
09 Wild boar, linocut
A wild boar trotting, solid black with rows of short white cuts for its bristly coat, a spiky ridge along the back and a curled tail. White paper. Source link: not yet given.
10 Swallow in flight, linocut
A swallow swooping, wings wide and tail forked, solid black with white cut feather lines and a speckled head. Short gouge marks fly out around it like motion. White paper. Close to the swallow already used on the website mockups. Source link: not yet given.
11 Hedgehog curled up asleep, linocut
A hedgehog curled into an oval, asleep, its face and paws tucked in. Hundreds of fine white spine cuts sweep round the black body. Cream paper. Source link: not yet given.
12 Coiled snake, watercolour
A snake rising from a double coil, painted in dark green-grey scales over a pale yellow belly. A natural history watercolour rather than a print, with a plate number ("79") in the corner. Source link: not yet given.
13 Six butterflies, photographic plate
Six butterflies in two columns, in soft black and grey on cream paper, like an old natural history plate: a dark birdwing with spotted hindwings, a striped swallowtail, a pale butterfly with one tail, a pale one with dark edges, a banded one and a spotted one. Faint script lettering on the left edge and across the last butterfly. Source link: not yet given.
14 Loon swimming, linocut
A loon on the water, its back a grid of small white cuts, a striped collar and white streaks along the flank, with curved strokes for the ripples. White paper. Source link: not yet given.