In the print workshop today, making screen prints onto large sheets (to cut up and make into artist books…)
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cyanotype
Today I used a photocopier and slide (acetate) transparencies to make negatives for a photographic print process called cyanotype. You may have seen cyanotype used for botanical prints (a 19th century pioneer of the method was Anna Atkins, who made books of algae prints). [For botanical prints no negatives are needed – instead the plants […]
I’ve been trying out different ways of layering some of my written pieces into the drawings. Some tests today – screen printing my writing onto small drawings and photo prints:
Today trying out words and drawings together. I’m quite hopeful about this, these are three test pieces that I made with some small drawings that were lying on the workbench – I’ve written them with moveable-type letterpress letters that I’ve borrowed. You can see the metal moveable-type in the picture. You probably have seen these […]
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intaglio printmaking process
I’m just starting working on something exciting with a small piece of scratched perspex that was in the shed. So I’ve washed it and written on it with a sharpie, and now I’m scratching marks into the other side. I’m going to make artists books that go with writing that I am doing, that communicate […]
here is some food work, for havest-festivala drawing and print, made at our online arts group this morningpainting on vegetables and using them to make block printswhich is so lovely and meditative and frankly also amazingly counter-intuitiveif you have a bit of paint, a few hours to spare and a leaf or the end of […]
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bottle tops and cardboard tubes
I’m showing you some prints I’ve made today in a joy-filled online session that I participated in this morning – with the community arts group that I help to run (https://gwendraethartslab.com/). We worked with things from our rubbish bins – things like bottle tops and cardboard tubes, taking me back to the joy of being […]
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