This print didn’t get this name until pretty near the end of the process. 
This half term was relief lino printing. Which I’ve never really been successful will. So working from a familiar image I made my first reduction print… Read the rest of this entry »
Who am I kidding this is all back story: last year I was crocheting hyperbolic surfaces and came across a video for branching hyperbolic crochet. Which leads long-story-short to the thing which I am mainly making now – a form that branches, that may or may not be a fractal and may end up consuming all my yarn budget before I put a stake through its heart. Or, …shiny!
On a shopping therapy trip i came across Edward’s Crochet Imaginarium. Just the thing for when Bob the cat needs an evening off
Oh look crochet it must be a hospital again.
Doesn’t bode well.
Unfortunately Monster (we weren’t on first name terms) got lost in a ward transfer*. So was only metaphorically able to accompany its human into the afterlife (which of course is also metaphorical).
Have started next monster but not progressed far – perhaps to ward off hospitals – or it could be the heat
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* along with lego watch, toiletries, hand made felt bag, hearing aid stuff, clothes, puzzle book and the bag it was all in. I may have forgot stuff.
There have been words.
It’s another finished crochet project: this must mean a return to witting in waiting rooms
So this half term i’ve been working with some of the plates i’ve made at City Lit almost a decade ago. I’m reworking them for the Planet Box Set Project college is running. Read the rest of this entry »
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?
Here we are starting at the end. I’m really pleased how this print has turned out. This was probably the last place I imagined finishing at after five weeks, but when I’ve published cobbles i-iv you’ll see how the journey progressed. Read the rest of this entry »
For this five week course i’ve been reusing polycarbonate plates i’ve used before. The dry point burr gets squashed by the press after awhile and so the image fades.
In the previous post I detailed the construction of the plate and all the different techniques i put it though. Here are are the resulting prints. All together I managed 10 prints, but you can see the last one is a shadow of it’s former self. Read the rest of this entry »
In the third week of the class I finally got the size of block I had asked for week one. because I couldn’t soak the blocks before class I only got an afternoons worth of printing done. The work produced therefore is a bit of everything from the last two weeks of the course. Read the rest of this entry »
This isn’t really a Dodecahedron. But I don’t know a better name for the form*. You can see better images of 20 joined columbus cubes here.
So like the post a fortnight ago I have been working through the geometry of joining columbus cubes to make a spherical body.
Here are a series of photos that take you through the process.
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*It’s probably half way to a icosahedron, where equilateral triangles take up the whole of each edge of the pentagons Read the rest of this entry »
a map of hyper-space 