Paperartsy - a mixed media diversion
18 February 2014
When time is tight, fatigue sets in and art seems to be pushed to second best, there is always the internet to keep me happy. And, while wandering the web, I think I might have become just be a little bit smitten by a range of paints I have just discovered ( but I don't have any yet) and the accompanying You Tube channel.
So, for your delectation:-
So, for your delectation:-
Settle down with a cup or glass of something delicious and enjoy. The technique is interesting and those paints look really good.
Revisiting the Horizon Quilts
9 February 2014
You may remember that last year I entered my first ever quilt at FOQ as part of the Contemporary Quilts gallery. I had a few technical,issues!
One of my technical issues was my own rather dire photography.
And here are some interviews with some of the quilters from Bonnie McCaffery.
Already thinking about this years quilt - the theme is 'dislocation'.
But peppers to finish first!
Ps. sorry - you have to cut and paste the links. I'm writing this using the ' Blog' ap on the iPad and cannot work out how to embed a link.
Pps. No you don't! Fixed the links I hope.
Pps. No you don't! Fixed the links I hope.
Thinking about future work ...
... and revisiting the past.
One of the very first forays into print I did yonks ago (it must be something like 5 years) and I did not really know quite what I was doing, but was in a very 'what if' frame of mind.
I started with a very simple print plate that I made sticking vaguely leaf shaped card pieces onto a card base (looking back on it this was probably a very simple collograph plate, but at the time that was not a term I recognised). It is significant that I used the shiny surface of some packaging.
I printed using very 'wet' Windsor and Newton inks like these - painting them onto the card surface. The shiny surface just 'held' the ink rather than it soaking in. A lucky accident because I was very green in those early days.
I printed onto A5 sized rag paper, but I had very roughly 'sketched' leaf shapes onto this paper with a wax candle before printing - this obviously created a resist and the white areas on the paper.
Here are a couple of those print runs.
Then I scanned them onto the ancient old laptop, and framed the originals (they hang on the landing in my 'home from home').
Now they have popped up in some work already finished. You can see them here,a finished mixed media embroidery in the Gallery section of this blog. (tissue hand coloured with a print block and with sweetie foils, then stitched with the prints collaged on. There is beading in there too!)
One of the very first forays into print I did yonks ago (it must be something like 5 years) and I did not really know quite what I was doing, but was in a very 'what if' frame of mind.
I started with a very simple print plate that I made sticking vaguely leaf shaped card pieces onto a card base (looking back on it this was probably a very simple collograph plate, but at the time that was not a term I recognised). It is significant that I used the shiny surface of some packaging.
I printed using very 'wet' Windsor and Newton inks like these - painting them onto the card surface. The shiny surface just 'held' the ink rather than it soaking in. A lucky accident because I was very green in those early days.
I printed onto A5 sized rag paper, but I had very roughly 'sketched' leaf shapes onto this paper with a wax candle before printing - this obviously created a resist and the white areas on the paper.
Here are a couple of those print runs.
Then I scanned them onto the ancient old laptop, and framed the originals (they hang on the landing in my 'home from home').
Now they have popped up in some work already finished. You can see them here,a finished mixed media embroidery in the Gallery section of this blog. (tissue hand coloured with a print block and with sweetie foils, then stitched with the prints collaged on. There is beading in there too!)
Having scanned the prints I did a bit of manipulation and then printed them onto the printer ready fabric pieces you can buy from Crafty Computer Paper here in the UK (sorry to my foreign readers - I don't think these people ship abroad, but I am sure you can find similar suppliers in the USA or Australia). I know you can also make your own fabric printer ready - there is something you can buy from Art Van Go and you can iron it onto freezer paper to make the cotton feed through the printer, but to be honest, this isn't something I have tried. Other blogs may help you with that. Anyway, it was these fabrics that I collaged onto the piece. This example, plus a couple of others are now a good couple of years old, though they have not really had a public outing.
Any how, thinking about this years Festival of Quilts (months away but my time is precious and I have to plan ahead!) I have an idea hatching in my mind.
Hence this weekend I revisited those original scans and had another little play with them in 'Print.net' - manipulating the colours to give me these alternatives.
You can probably tell. this last one is the odd one out - the first 4 are all variations of one original print.
A bit more manipulation is probably needed but I think a plan is being hatched and a design is forming in my mind.
Pepper post - the end is in sight
5 February 2014
Despite a few little diversions and excursions, I am still progressing with the little peppers project.
Why peppers? Well a friend who has a delicatessen said she might be interested to have a few little pieces in her shop to decorate a few blank areas of wall. And if she doesn't like them then I want to try the little Tea Room nearby that also sells art. It's time to get my work out there a bit more.
So here is the latest version in my sketchbook.
I love this mark making technique - monoprinting on tissue paper which I stick down and hand colour with inks. And then additional collage from inked book pages.
Here I have used pen to add additional embellishment but for the final pieces the last marks will be stitched.
And here are two pieces in progress - here the tissue is stuck onto rag paper.
Only in London .....
3 February 2014
And see a blue cockerel on a plinth.
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