Map VII

Finally here are the edited highlights of open workshop week (3.5days)

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Lots to think about for next time I’m sure

MER

Maps VI

And what have we learnt this week?

That materials change when you use them and if you want to have everything nice and registered you need to make a master former and keep everything the same ‘age’…

Space-ships?

So they aren’t actually space ships because they travel through hyperspace or what ever it its. And they aren’t actually spaceships because my arm drew them on the paper. Does your arm ever do that, just come out with things you aren’t expecting? Well the lump has all the things a space ship needs, air, water, food, a propulsion system (them’s not guns).

What are you surprised you can see right through it?

Maps V

For this last post of this half term here’s a summary of work so far. As well as the two plate prints for the index sheets I’ve also been varying the colour on the main plate.

In addition I’ve also started working on the first sheet of the series.

Map IV

This week I’m slightly more on message than previous. I created a second plate for the Index sheet i.e. reifying the space between. It had mixed success. This post also contains a bit of house keeping for the overall project.

Maps II

I’ve been really busy this week, but I’m not sure how much I have to show for it. I’ve printed the first proofs of the three A2 plates I posted about last week, but mainly I’ve been diving in to origami. And that has been causing me to reconsider the J11D project. Images and things are probably going to be a bit thin on the ground until the end of term as all this work is large and requires an A1 folio to cart it about; something London’s public transport isn’t very keen on.

Map making I

This  second half of the summer term is going to be devoted to my on going star chart project that I reviewed over easter.

It’s taken me all this time to go out and buy some more Button Polish to seal the plates.

Thoughts about projects and last day of term fun. (The pix)

previously: drag marks

river cobbles #6-16

different weights of emery paper give different tones

big bubble wrap the stripe across the image is from a fold in the blank! slap wrist

two layers, creased black and solvent thinned blue

flock paint roller to wipe away of the grey ink printed on to last years orange mono print

previously: layers of pre-inked masks

river cobbles #10-16

bubble wrap and digital manipulation

masks and grain

A Xenolith is an intrusive foreign rock. This image is more marbling

solvent and mark making

a plate: paint on emery paper, an attempt to make ‘solvent prints’ less ephemeral, haven’t had the chance to print yet

river cobbles #16-16

previously: masked areas

a round plate and marks made with the side of a roll of tape

river cobbles #1-16

the marks on this print are made by an adhesive comb in the mono print plate

tiny hand painted collograph

previously: sugar lift, viscosity print

as well as solvent this mono print has used a paint roller to make parts

previously: making the pebbles is the last thing after all the pattern making

folds in the emery paper, and closed up bits produce pattern

using dry printing paper to soak up solvent thinned ink

printed drawing paper once the dissolved ink has been removed

previously:absorbant layers and masks

old and used emery papers, with prospective browns

 

Thoughts about projects and last day of term fun.

By the time I actually manage to write these blog posts sometimes the thoughts therein have gone round and round and round and I hardly know where anything is, but I’m trying to make sense of what I want to do with my work and the opportunities I have at the studio.
This post will be a place marker for some serious considerations of projects I’ve been fighting with over time and their likely next step. Hop to the next post to look at pictures, both past and present, if you want to skip all my blathering.

Big plate – work in progress

As dry point is a quick process part of this half term was to make a series of related prints. Lat summer I managed ‘to contemplate a tangled bank’*, but this time I haven’t managed anything as comprehensive.

The plates have got bigger, and more self involved.