Chris Pig

@QuercusBooks @amy_historia @JasmineLPalmer @Lipfon_ @ellnightingale @LizzieMastersUK @AnaBooks @riverrunbooks What a ride eh?

HUGE congratulations to the utterly brilliant @amy_historia who has hit The Sunday Times bestseller charts with the paperback of #Storyland 🥳✨ A special thank you to all the booksellers, reviewers and readers who have championed this magical book from the very start 🙌

@amy_historia Phwoar! Wouldn't mind having a play with those two scorpers.

Ask yourselves, is your day truly complete without a wood engraving of a Royal Staicase Wentlet? I think not.

This 2015 clip by YouTube channel Applied Science, shows a stop motion animation of a phonograph needle in a vinyl LP groove made using an electron microscope [video with the process steps: buff.ly/3lFEtg2] [how the stereo LP groove works: buff.ly/2SclXz2]

Today #otd is the feast of St Bartholomew, the skinned apostle One of the most striking representations of the apostle appears in the Duomo of Milan. Marco d’Agrate's 1562 sculpture imagines the martyr's flayed flesh draped over his shoulder #saints #twitterstorians #arthistory

@DrStruthers @GraceANagle @calbourne_lady @CHASE_DTP @CourtauldRes @alixebovey @StruthersWatch It reminds me of the kind of painting Christian Schad would make. I'm busy right now but would like to work from that some time, who do I ask for permission?

@QuercusBooks @HemelWstones @amy_historia @Waterstones I was born and bred in Hemel Hempstead funnily enough.

BEHIND THE SCENES OF #STORYLAND✨ For the endpapers of Storyland, @amy_historia created this breathtaking linocut map. The block was then printed by the artist printmaker @ChrisPig5. Pre-order your copy @Waterstones 🔗bit.ly/2VhLYQv

@GraceANagle @calbourne_lady @CHASE_DTP @CourtauldRes @alixebovey @DrStruthers @StruthersWatch What a fantastic photograph!

New profile pic 😎😎 #Storyland

If you're looking for an excuse to celebrate, it's Palle Nielsen's birthday today. I think he was the greatest ever artist with linocut. Cheers Palle!

Thank you so much to @Lipfon_ at @QuercusBooks for this beautiful package I got this morning. Storyland by @amy_historia looks fantastic and is also beautiful looking! Check out the laser cut design and the gorgeous art postcards, can’t wait to see the finished hardback!!

@amy_historia @QuercusBooks @riverrunbooks excellent! Can't work out which you're more excited over, the audiobook or the snacks!

I'm finally able to offer courses in wood engraving, linocut and etching. Classes start on the 9th of September, all details are at blackpigprintmakingstudio.com

@amy_historia @seanehewitt That's excellent! Less is more.

I've been obsessing over German chiaroscuro, particularly Hans Wechtlin. These colourways are experiments for "Icarus near the Frome Central Leisure Centre Complex". Icarus to follow.

@natchjourneyman @Waterstones @CVHISTORYFEST I'm not surprised it's selling like hot cakes, best read I've had in ages.

The Stonemason selling like hot cakes @Waterstones @CVHISTORYFEST with its own table!

I've just had this article published in Printmaking Today about Carlos Barberena de la Rocha, a fantastic Nicaraguan artist whom some would describe as radical but I think he's quite sensible really. #printmaking #Frome #ChrisPig

Amy and Will came by today with their baby. I was quite overwhelmed.