Preparation, preparation, preparation
Although I still don’t feel much like painting, I am getting more enthusiastic about it I have been preparing some mdf boards for testing – post conversation with Stewart Geddes. […]
Category Archives: Tests
Monoprinting experiments
I had a fruitful studio day yesterday working on some monoprints and a small text painting. Here are the results of the monoprinting session. I wanted to concentrate on expanding […]
Sherwood Printmaking Day 27 Oct
On Sunday I attended another printmaking day at Sherwood Printmakers. I wanted to try out Chine Collé. But this turned out to be not so successful – I wanted to […]
Experiments
I wanted to do some final experiments before I ‘close’ my making for this module. My making doesn’t stop – but it has to make room for the writing I […]
Printmaking Day – 2 June
Here are some of the prints from the printmaking workshop I attended in Nottingham on 2 June. I really loved the process: the intensity of colour; the abstractness of it; […]
Making Day – Sat 18th May
For this making day I wanted to experiment with textures, surfaces and ‘underwriting’ on stretched primed canvases and raw canvas fabric. I decided to begin with using Polyfilla (or the […]
Purple Haze
So I thought I would have a go with a calmer palette. The strokes are still a bit demented and too energetic, I need to find a way to blur […]
Conkers
Today’s task is to make a conker. Saw a load of conkers on the way to the corner shop yesterday. I’d forgotten how much I adore them. I used to […]
Beach memory vessel
I made a new memory vessel tonight with seaside colours. Lots of sand, a bit of sea, sky and a teeny bit of candy floss. Intertwined with a couple of […]
Too twee, but good experiment
I made this piece as an experiment. The sand has folds and creases felted into it. The sea has hand dyed silk fibres felted into it and mohair yarn. And […]
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