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Keep your eyes peeled

You never know what you will find. I found this perfect lithograph in a charity shop for £1.50. I did consider selling it on. But, as I play violin, plus I like the movement in this image, I have decided to hang on to it. I especially admire how the artist depicted the bow withContinue reading “Keep your eyes peeled”

Before and after pix

I had some very encouraging feedback from my tutor on Assignment 4: The Figure. He suggested that I rework some sketches to give more depth using tonal contrast. The following few pieces I feel have benefitted from being revisited. I feel that the extra shading has been well worth the effort involved. There is moreContinue reading “Before and after pix”

Reflective writing workshop

The following post is the result of homework given during a zoom-hosted OCA workshop on reflective writing techniques. This is taking place over two consecutive Saturdays in July. In the intervening week students lucky enough to be included were tasked to come up with a short blog post (250 words – exceeded here) presumably forContinue reading “Reflective writing workshop”

Assignment 5 update

I cannibalized one of the blue collagraph prints to take the glasses frames and pasted them onto the purple print – which can now be more accurately described as a collage – and added the neck area too from the same blue print. This left me with a “holey” print. This I laid on topContinue reading “Assignment 5 update”

This Weekend’s Exercise

From a design for a painting created to thank my niece for looking after my pet rats several years ago. I redraw it here onto a (roughly A5) piece of lino with the intention of cutting it for a relief printing process. I look forward to doing that tomorrow afternoon. Then comes the delight ofContinue reading “This Weekend’s Exercise”

Assignment 5

Today’s efforts; again I feel the need to stop and consider awhile. It needs something but I’m not sure what right now. Come back to it tomorrow. I have to say that I prefer the latest version to the one that sold. I think it’s more human and less like an anachronistic byzantinesque icon. References:Continue reading “Assignment 5”

Assignment 5: Personal Project Nos 4,5 & 6

Of the four prints I took from the mountboard plate, one sold and three remain. I’ve decided to work concurrently on these remainders as one complete idea. The following is the point which I reached today. I stopped to blog the work so far because I believed it could benefit from thinking about overnight. IContinue reading “Assignment 5: Personal Project Nos 4,5 & 6”

Oops! Sold it

This is my Assignment 5 project as it stands. However, it is no longer in my possession: I sold it. This leaves me with the versions in blue and in purple to develop using similar methods as those used for the above. I chose to print this image rather than use coloured crayons or anyContinue reading “Oops! Sold it”

Experiment No 4 Assignment 5: Personal Project: Hypervigilance in Blue

I just managed a further couple of prints off the mountboard plate before it began to lose its integrity. Parts began peeling away from the plate as the final print was removed. I intend to use parts of a previous print, from the sectional plate I did earlier, for a collage. These are in aContinue reading “Experiment No 4 Assignment 5: Personal Project: Hypervigilance in Blue”

Experiment No 3 Assignment 5: Personal Project: “Hypervigilance”

This is how far I’ve got with this. I have finished cutting the plate and have taken my first two prints. I discarded the very first for now as water based ink soaks into the plate and comparatively little onto the paper. My plan is to use mixed media and collage techniques to add depthContinue reading “Experiment No 3 Assignment 5: Personal Project: “Hypervigilance””