Embrace the Tea Pot

Among other things i am back to printing after a 18months hiatus and this term we are Out of Darkness. Making Collagraphs from emery paper* and carborundum.

https://www.morleycollege.ac.uk/courses?s=Out+of+darkness+

One of the images I wanted to work on was this tiny thing – originally done in colour pencil.

It probably is this blurry in real life

I’ve aways wanted a pantograph. I brought one during lockdown (as you do). And this was the first time I’ve used it …

This is the 1:4 setting

Finally I worked out how much to tighten up the connectors so it could move with out sticking or flailing all over the place, but I’m still disappointed.

Interesting but not what i was hoping for…

Perhaps the last image works best in terms of proportion, but will still need to be doctored!

It’s blue

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I coloured over the lines a bit

• the technique involves painting over the textured emery paper to achieve a smooth/ ink repelling surface. As you can see i’m out of practice with my brushes.

So It goes

Congratulate me on not heaving my phone across the room trying to format this ❤️

Old Project? NewProject! – Millefleurs

I’m finally starting to hang things on my walls. It’s only been 2 years!

SketchBook Project Submission Time

This is the third year that I have submitted sketchbooks to the Broolkyn Art Library. Although this is the first year that I’ve actually had an uplifting subject matter. The submission deadline is mid Feb and I’m about halfway done. I thought I’d stick my work so far up here, because I hope to reference it for my own work process.

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ps You can find my previous submissions here.

Array- new toys!

I was gifted a pile of 50mm slide transparencies as they are similar to the plates I was using to produce my Array Prints. I’m going to put the set I printed first up as a slideshow and then comment on them below. There is lots and lots of potential to use this material to further the Array inquiry.

• There were three kinds of slide in the pile: card, thin plastic and heavy duty with glass. Obviously these three kinds take ink in very different ways.
• The inside and outside of the slide frame print differently. The card frames have glue residue that is unique to each frame.
• The slide film can also be used to make tiny dry points. The slides came from a collection on art history, so plenty of scope for interesting subject matter.
• Depending on whether you put the film infant, or behind the slide frame you get a different sized image.
• There are many directions that Chine collé can take a image.
• I am going to have to go away and think about which parts of all this new material I’m going to use first.

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Reuse

I have some used canvases that aren’t much so im attempting to make something of them.

This one was easy –

There was structure in the way the paint had been poured to pick out the tree. The paint was reds, yellow and browns. I added sky, folliage and the bank behind the trunk in pencil.

All cats, at night, are grey

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…

Blankets

I’m Still doing all the crochet. And between flowers, cacti and the odd bird ive been making the odd blanket.

They need to have the right balance if boredom and intrigue. And because its me. I cant just make a million motifs and then sew them together

Flower sketches

Arte Postal 2019

This year had a theme – climate change. Heres my contribution …

Too much rain, too much sun

ex Hurricane Ophelia

More energy, more drama

With our. Weather, we always have something to talk about…

Wiggly Flowers

Little scribbles that could be flowers. Very carefully orchestrated of course. Or maybe I’ve spent too long re-potting the Cacti. [They’re doing okay, by the way.]

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