Mat Pringle

A statement regarding Unbound/Boundless.

Bluesky has four kinds of users.

This morning; Mica Levi. #nowplaying

John R. Neill,1909. From: “The Road to Oz,” by L. Frank Baum #illustration #1900s #JohnR.Neill #WizardOfOz #L.FrankBaum

PRINT SOCIAL will be hosting a Beastly Print Workshop next Saturday at Lowlife in Margate. 📅 Saturday 31st October
⏰ 10am–12pm
📍 Lowlife, 139 Northdown Road, Margate CT9 2QY
🎟️ FREE — suggested donation £2 🖌️All materials supplied.
✨ All skill levels welcome. Come and get inky! 🎃

Death victorious by Augusto Roma, 1915. He is wearing a stylish shroud decorated with art deco owls (or at least they look deco to me, although it is a bit early for the movement). #OwlishMonday #owl #31DaysOfHalloween #Spooktober #artdeco

This week someone brought in the cursed summoning whistle from Jonathan Miller’s Oh Whistle And I’ll Come To You. This has been an incredible run for the series being brought powerful Fortean artefacts. Expecting the VHS from Ringu next week, and the Hexham Heads.

We’re done. Sage is gone but the board has let him down with budget replacements and poor signings. Going the West Ham route… #cpfc

#SpookySunday A legend of Cornwall says that the spirit of a broken-hearted maiden will follow her deceiver in the form of a white hare (invisible to all but him) until his death. The hare may also warn others of an oncoming storm. A tale told in the cigarette cards below (from 1936)

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FRIDAY SHOP PLUG! Folklore themed linocut prints now with added Dracula. 🧛🏼‍♀️ matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com

So, my 2027 calendar is finally out!! 🥰Follow the link in my linktree 🐇 ( Only available for UK orders atm. 😔)

🔥Witch! Here’s the 3rd in my series of lino prints inspired by the weird guys on church misericords. This one is inspired by a wonderful carving of a witch and her familiar at Great Malvern Priory. Prints will be available in the shop from 12 00 (GMT) on Friday 23rd Oct. 👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

All songs eventually become sad songs.

This morning; Massive Attack. #nowplaying

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Two monster drawings for a fun web project.

The strange stone creatures that climb and cavort the churches of the country make a fabulous bestiary. They function less as lithic lookouts, more as a telling of the mediaeval mind. What filled it with such oddities? What did the stone carvers see? – Sir John Betjeman, 1969

Bela Lugosi, Lucille Lund and Boris Karloff in a publicity still for THE BLACK CAT (1934) Lugosi was BOTD in 1882

Here’s how I made it. Zero AI involved because fuck AI.

Frontispiece of notorious witch-hunter Matthew Hopkins’s "Discovery of Witches" (1645), showing witches with their adorable familiars: Holt, Jarmara, Vinegar Tom, Sacke and Sugar, Newes, Pyewackett, Newes, Ilemauzer, Pecke in the Crowne, and Griezzel Greedigutt (a name "no mortall could invent”) 🎃 🧹

Happy birthday beyond the veil to Bela Lugosi. This is the linocut portrait I was commissioned to create for the Dracula Returns to Derby project conceived by Derby University. I’ve finally created a print run. The print is complimented by a watercolour finish. Available in an edition of sixty.

A little Nazgul animation made for #tolktober. Rotoscope animation, printed on paper. Soundtracked with my micro cassette recorder.

Birthday beats for Alan.

FRIDAY SHOP PLUG! Folklore themed linocut prints including this festive pumpkin gathering. Featuring all your favourite musical garden pals; Franklin the frog on banjo, Sylvia the squirrel on dulcimer and Jenny Wren on the bells… matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com

Deep into the spoopy season. I’m late to the party but ‘Weapons’ was so much fun with a glorious finale! #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

productive days. i understand that much of this work isn't up to the illustrative bar, nor the tabletop art level. laughable even to most, but these are happy days of making for me. still plan to make knights, dungeons, treasure, adventurer art, but this "other" work you is closer to me :)

Friday Folk Fancies Fun from heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com

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Getting into the details of the carve.

Tove Jansson, 1958. “Midwinter” #illustration #comics #1950s #Moomin #ToveJansson

This morning; The Watersons. #nowplaying Turn of the seasons folk belter.

Watching ‘The Sixth Sense’. No spoilers please.

Forgot to time lapse this video so it’s about five minutes of real time carving… rather than go through the rigmarole of building a data centre in my garden to house the footage I thought I’d pop it on here then throw my phone into the sea. Making a new thing based on an old thing.

This afternoon; Andy Pratt. Bobby Conn must be a fan. #cheapheat