News — The Broons & Oor Wullie

OOR WULLIE, BEFORE AND AFTER I love a before-and-after comparison. Perhaps it's something to do with a sense of development, of change. Perhaps it's like the sense of progress that a gardener gets when they review the growth their plants have made. And with this progression from blank sheet to first colour separation to second colour separation, there's something extra with a screenprint - there's a sense of fulfilment, of becoming what you had the potential to become. Anyway, to celebrate this evolution, here's a series of photo combinations showing how the screenprint develops - how the ink is layered....

I love printing Oor Wullie. The character is so beautifully drawn by Dudley D Watkins and his successors as the strip's draughtsman that it's always a pleasure to pick the panels or details to enlarge. I also enjoy the language that he uses, from 'sair fecht' (idiomatically 'a hard life') to 'braw' (almost directly from the Norwegian, apparently, meaning 'great'). And of course he's often referred to as Scotland's favourite son - a reference to his choice in a survey of illustrious Scots above the likes of Sean Connery and Robert Bruce.  Today I offer 15% off my Oor Wullie prints...

I’ve just printed two images in medium format for the first time: Asterix dances and Oor Wullie gives a peace sign.

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I have reduced the price of selected standard sized Broons and Oor Wullie prints by 25%, so the price falls from £40 to £30 per 26cms x 19cms print. These were all drawn by Dudley D Watkins, who continued to produce the stories until his death in 1969, and exhibits the skill he had in […]

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SALE ITEM: The Broons go fishing – I love the way the panel has internal echoes. Paw Broon and Granpaw Broon form a pair, as do their fishing rods, the speech bubbles, the hilltops and even the rocks in the river. And a ‘but and ben’ is apparently a two-roomed cottage in the countryside. It […]

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