Borders prints

On the 6th August I took some prints down to the Flat Cat gallery in Lauder for their Autumn exhibition. While I was there we went for 2 walks in the are - one up the Lauder Valley to a Roman fort and one up the Tweed valley from Peebles. On each walk I made a plein aire watercolour sketch. Since then I have converted the images into collagraph plates and printed them.

This is the Lauderdale print

And this is the sketch

This is the Tweed valley print

And this is the sketch. I used carborandum for the trees, tiling cement for the hills, and the rest is combinations of PVA and cutting.