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.

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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Found Flowers

There are about a 100 boxes of Stuff that i need to rehome at some point in the future. A lot of it is textile related. Sorting though I came across a pile of period embroidery. Most of it is 1930 – 50’s? – where you would iron on a blue design to your table cloth and satin stitch over the top.

Could I use these bits of cloth in my new, more positive facing project? I painted some with acrylic medium and had a go.

Happy Moth Day

A friend asked to help make some Mother’s Day car

But because autocorrect is not your friend: I also made a Moth Day card

Learning Paint

And not just fence paint, although that’s part of it. The other day I realised that my entryway was particularly dull and depressing and so I’m painting it white. I want to get as much warmth and light into the area as possible. I may, paint asters over the knot holes at some later date.

Small samples

I wanted to do some sampling before I moved on to making the plates for my big flower type things. Some of the other printers use all sorts of DIY materials to make their plates and so I thought I’d use some of the things i was discovering in the cupboards. A while ago i’d used whiting and acrylic medium*, but i wanted to try something which would create even more of a relief effect. Unfortunately the box labeled filler in the cupboard wasn’t what everyone else using.