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  - New EM Illustration Shop now open! Selling Hand Coloured Prints by Illustrator Emma Metcalfe
    30/09/09
    
    My new shop is finally open, selling hand coloured silk screen prints of some of my illustrations and drawings. I will be expanding the range over the next few weeks, as I create more prints and hope to establish a good selection in time.
    
    Click here to visit the shop
  - Hand Painted Illustrated Owls Screen Prints for Sale, Tawny Owl, Barn Owl and Scops Owl
    28/09/09
    
    I am going to be setting up a 'shop' page on my website, and am expanding my range of prints for sale. I have just finished painting my first set of Owl prints.
    
    These are hand silk screened black line prints, which are then individually hand colour
  - Cheeky Chameleons Hand Coloured Silk Screen Prints for Sale!
    25/09/09
    I'm pleased to say that after much experimentation and messing around with ink, I finally have some silk screen prints for sale.
    
    This Cheeky Chameleon is a hand pulled silk screen print taken from an original pen and ink drawing. Each print is then coloured by hand using watercolour
  - Hand Silk Screen Printed 'Snow Penguins' Greeting Cards for sale
    22/09/09
    
    I have designed and hand printed these 'Snow Penguins' greeting cards which I am selling. Each is a hand pulled screen print on 350gsm art paper, signed by myself, and mounted on silver-grey card with a subtle metallic sheen. Comes with an envelope and wrapped in a cellop
  - Screen Printing with Photo Emulsion
    16/09/09
    
    My photo emulsion has finally arrived, so I have just exposed my first Photo Emulsion coated screen.
    
    Above you can see the screen, and positive during exposure, and then below the screen after I had just given it a good blast of water to remove the Photo Emulsion.
  - My First Silk Screen Print using Diazo Screen Filler
    11/09/09
    
    After spending hours working in Photoshop, I sometimes get a craving to do some 'real' art, and on one of these occassions recently I bought a Speedball silk screen printing set.
    
    This is my first attempt at using Diazo Screen filler, which you can either
  - Preparatory Drawings & Roughs for Giant Funfair/Fairground Illustration
    08/09/09
    
    Thought it might be nice for people to see some of the prep work that goes into my final illustrations. Before I break out the ink I do quite a few pencil and fineliner drawings/ideas/composition experiments.
    
    I am currently working on a very large fairground poster size illus
  - Shambala Illustrated Chinese Lantern
    05/09/09
    
    Lack of posts lately down to a number of things, one of which is that I went to Shambala Festival with my friend and fellow illustrator Laura Elliott last weekend.
    
    Lots of fun was had, good music, talented poets, beatboxers and acrobats, and lots of lovely tea and cake. Howev
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