Tiling cement, golden pumice gel, carborundum, cutting and tearing. Also the sky and the lochs liquitex acrylic medium to allow monoprinting - Acrylic medium wipes completely clean so can be rolled on and wiped as much as one likes
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Its been a busy summer and I have not had a great deal of time to go to the print workshop. So far - 5 plates made and printed Throughout my residency I was overwhelmed by the greenness of Scotland in summer - - and so many greens - a definite challenge. I am much more accustomed to winter colours. The watercolour sketch looked good with no colour in the sky - sadly the print doesn't - I may need to make an alteration. I have started using monoprinting to make skies and lochs - this means that every print is unique. This plate combines - collagraph, monoprinting and viscosity printing - again each print is unique.
Viscosity printing involves rolling over inks with diffent levels of oiliness. Oily ink repels non oily ink so I can roll over with blue then yellow in the sky without making green. I spent 2 weeks visiting my mum in Cornwall, we experimented with wet cyanotypes and cyanotypes on fabric This culminated in me making a triptych of muslin hangings. These hangings altogether are 140cms high and 180 wide. The inspiration was my daily run around the fields up over the moor and down the lanes. The title is 'Field, moor lane'. I collected the plants on my runs and exposed the panels in the sunshine in my mums garden Placing the flowers Taking the panel out into the garden Waiting as the sun does it's magic Rinsing the panel Hanging it up to dry. I focussed upon the 3 different environments i ran through - a panel for each. Field is composed of blackthorn - compete with sloes (which incidentally added their own mark) brambles, bracken, red campion, grasses and Montbretia sloes - complete with sloe juice blackberries Moor is composed of ling and bell heather, gorse, scabious, junkers and grasses. This panel offers a more distant view mirroring the nature of the moorland gorse Lane is composed of wild angelica, rose bay willow herb, ferns, herb robert, grasses, granny pop out of the bed - all the flowers I know from my childhood wild angelica These 3 panels hang loosely from a cane grown in the field behind my mum's house and float in the air as people pass them - mirroring the experience of running through the the fields, moors and lanes. The images have a soft focus - when you are running the nature of the activity is that you rarely focus on detail but experience ann overall impression.
I spent two weeks in June travelling around the Highlands in our campervan collecting images to make into collagraphs this is a selection - should keep me busy for a few months.
In June we camped in our campervan at Stronalachan on Loch Katrine. We cycled around Loch Katrine and to Loch Lomond. The bluebells were out - full meadows of bluebells - unbeleivably blue.
Had great weekend in Saltaire. Around 1,000 people viewed Just the clothes on their backs. Everybody was very supportive of the message.
SO ANGRY - I had a little silk left over and some PVC. So I made an extra plate - I will print it tomorrow As an artist I am at a loss for images!!!!!! So I have used only words - It's pants. To add insult to injury - I have forotten to reverse the lettering - I will have to do it again.!!!!
Printed this at Edinburgh Printmakers today. The last item of clothing for "Just the clothes on their backs : bear witness. Which will be installed in the backyard of Giddy Arts Saltaire village Mayday weekend. This is the plate - etched onto a piece of PVC with a Dremmel Inking up the plate ( with etching inks) The trial print on news print The press - Mega at Edinburgh printmakers
I have been accepted on the Saltaire Arts trail Saltaire village West Yorkshire. My clothesline _Mouth of the Shark - Just the clothes on their backs: bear witness. Will be hanging in the backyard of Giddy Arts in the village - in the backyard just off Albert terrace. Click the link for more information. I am number 9 - my lucky number. Anybody in the vicinity come and see - I will be there Sat 30 April, Sun 1, Mon 2 May.. So excited to be back there I used to live in Shipley. Our daughter went to Saltaire first school
https://saltaireinspired.org.uk/events/saltaire-arts-trail/2022-trail/open-village/ This is Tuesday's collagraph print (Edinburgh Printmakers). The plein aire sketch is below painted on an outing with Sketchers group. I have been sitting on it for a while puzzling out how to do it. It has ended up being a variable edition - due mainly to lack of skill with the enormous viscosity roller in etching. Below is a framed print - you can see what I mean by variable.
This is my 37th print this year - my cupboard is very nearly full of prints - I shall have to change my strategy and do more work that takes longerr. Usually it takes me about a day to make a plate and the same to trial and print an edition of 10. |
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