Category: Design Play
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Exploring image transfer, origami printing and stencilling.
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Messing around in my sketchbook. The aim was to combine both random and calculated shapes using a reduced colour palette. I like both orientations but…
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I was recently engaged to explore printing on handmade Hemp paper by someone who intends to market this paper for sale. I was given a…
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On recent visits to the papermaking studio I’ve been exploring laminating paper. In papermaking terms this means layering multiple pulled pieces together into a single…
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Every December our print group cut up either failed or excess prints produced during the year and swap with each other to create small concertina…
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It’s been a stressful week so it seemed like a good time to take a few minutes away from other people to mess about in…
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I had a quick dip into the world of monotypes recently after watching a few short videos. Essentially I spent a bit of time with…
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I noticed how similar my colour palettes were in my two previous pieces so decided to make some adjustments. I also took note of my…
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On day 3 of the challenge I stuck with acrylic paints, as I enjoyed them so much on the first day. After painting this piece…
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Last week two friends and I decided to join a 5 day on-line creative challenge. The basis was supposed to be painting but the ethos…
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This week I’ve been building resources in my sketchbook. An A5 pencil sketch of TV remote controls sitting on my cutting mat was followed by…
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I first showed this print plate in October where I discovered the issue of using Shellac that had been made for a while and then…
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Using minimal materials; essentially mountboard, a couple of pieces of lightweight paper and some adhesive foil, I built a low-relief multi-layered collagraph plate. I cut…
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Car and truck tires seem to have been in my peripheral vision lately so I drew a few and collaged them together to form a…
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Take two products … Last year I invested in several new stencils. In theory I could have cut some of them myself but the strain…
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I’m currently part of an on-line creative exploration course. It’s nothing onerous, just something to stimulate ideas and create some random drawings without too much…
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I recently read an article describing the technique of pressing collagraph plates into an inked gelli plate surface, followed by pulling the print from the…
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I recently wrote about some etched solar plates I’ve been given, which I’ve started printing. My aim is to create a book showcasing the prints…
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I’ve designed a system of recording both the variety of paints & drawing materials I own and the items & colours I intend to use…
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I recently taught a colour & composition workshop where we concentrated on the wonderful world of colour choices; tones, tints, likes, dislikes and colour matching.…
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This week I was introduced to another way of gelli printing, one where texture can be created whilst still being able to produce quite exacting…
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Over the last 12 months I’ve done quite a bit of gelli plate printing using a few different methods; random rolling of paints, applying stencils,…
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Continuing with the Gelli printing & stencilling, I used my original source photos as a start point and reproduced some of the images then cut…
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Gelli Plate printing These first samples have been about re-familiarising myself with the Gelli plate, getting good coverage and colour combinations. All produced with various…
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Anyone following this thread will note that I’ve changed the title from ‘Working with nature’ (which were parts 1 & 2) to the overall course…
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Identifying colour palettes from photos This is something I’ve done many times before but this time I’m exploring computer programs that automatically extract colours from…
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This week I joined an online class exploring different ways of working with nature in an art practice. Initially we were encouraged to explore our…
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With the restrictions of being at home pretty much full time I joined a small on-line challenge this week. Entitled Notan/Counterchange, it was described as…
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I’ve spent a week playing with water-colour paints, exploring how they can be transferred to print paper outside of the normal landscape or still-life painting…
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Having taken some advice from a gentleman by the name of Patrick, a member of a photography group, I finally ordered and received a photo…
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In anticipation of a couple of book-binding courses I’ll be teaching in a few months time I’m exploring ways of applying different paints to paper…
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The notes received in this workshop stated (in part & abbreviated): Pastepapers have been used since at least as early as 1650. They were often…
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Loved the grid experiments in my last post so continued down this path this week with some great results. Sequin waste was cut to shape…
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More background experimentation – yep, I’m not done yet Whilst making book samples recently I’ve been mulling over my Circuit project. I’ve tried quite a…
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The value of experimentation No-one gets it right first time and I’ve a vision in my head that has been difficult to translate into reality.…
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I’ve been looking back over some of the work I’ve created in the last 5 years or so. While I’ve covered a variety of subjects…
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I’ve moved away from the source book I was using for my exercises and am following my own direction. The book helped a lot when…
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‘Other World’ Print Plates In my post of 16th February I created my first 3 collagraph print plates for this series + 2 masks. Here…
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‘Other World’ Print Plates In my post of 18th January I looked at both internal and external textures with a view to planning my Other…
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Continuing working with design play exercise 5 I chose one of the images and explored what I could achieve using Photoshop CS6. I’ve never had…
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Goal: To create a resource of both found and self-created textures for future reference and to stimulate ideas. I’m planning my next print project which…
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The goal: To turn solid shapes into line drawings, create variations on the theme and translate these into a workable design to print. Stage 1…
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I’m jumping around with the exercises in the book and missing some out as I’ve done similar things multiple times in the past. The goal:…