The Strawberry Fork

I have a small fascination for old, or "vintage" kitchen utensils.  I think it's because when you see them you are transported back to some earlier sepia coloured time period when everything was more relaxed and people didn't have computers or cell phones and instead made cakes and pies.  J K  Rowling had it right when she wrote about the portkey's.  Touch them and you'd be sucked to another place.  They were a little more drastic than the strawberry fork, but the wizarding world is like that.  Once upon a time, people used special two or three pronged strawberry forks to pierce the strawberry before dipping it in sugar and whipped cream.  I imagine everyone would be dressed elegantly when using these forks, the conversation would be witty and the vocabulary impressive.

However, snapping back to reality here at my computer.  This is a reduction linocut which has five colours of ink on the lovely green Tatami paper and six on the brown stonehenge.  I'm still experimenting with my new Daniel Smith inks and I made the great discovery when I was trying to get an orange which would remind me of a creamsicle that you can mix Daniel Smith with Speedball ink!  This is going to allow me a huge variety of colours and is great info for any printmakers out there.  I only made 8 of these.  They are now available in my Etsy : )