Category: My prints
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Part 2: Gabriella certainly worked us hard and shared a ton of information and samples with us. Trapping Plant Material: This was interesting. I had…
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Part 1: This two-day workshop in the Blue Mountains was an opportunity for me to print in completely different ways to what I have experienced…
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A couple of years ago I did an amazing collagraph workshop with Jet James. Read more about it and see some of my prints here.…
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Recently I spent a day photographing trees and plants in the botanic gardens. I’m contributing to an exhibition to be hosted in the gardens in…
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Whilst I’m still working on my hand-painting for Elian and the Vortex, he is off on another dream adventure. As per last time, I will…
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Combining the plates: In my last post I posed the question ‘Is it too much to ask to be able to prepare 2 plates, add…
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Plate 2: Solar Plate This plate will be printed underneath the previous zinc plate. That was made first to enable me to assess correct placement…
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Plate 1: Zinc plate, hard-ground etched from pencil transfer drawing. My start point for this project was a bunch of native flowers given to me…
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Water & spit biting Set-up We prepared a dedicated work area for this because the process can be quite hazardous as it involves pure nitric…
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How to use rosin aquatint and bitumen stop out when creating etched zinc plates.
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Swans The aim with this plate is to combine it with my soft ground etched plant material from a few weeks ago, which will be…
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For my first plate I decided to imitate what Matthew, the tutor, had taught us. I have a bit of a habit of running away…
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This is a new process to me involving etching into a zinc plate using 2 types of melted wax and an acid bath. The protective…
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Continuing on with my chine collé flower design (see previous posts here and here) I adhered a simple iron-on Wispa Weft to the back of…
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In the past I have always cut my shape from the tissue chine collé, inked up the lino/monoprint or whatever, laid the tissue over the…