Category: My Creative Pieces
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5-7 October 2019 Korowal School, Hazelbrook, Blue Mountains, NSW CLICK HERE to visit the website of this brand new creative retreat, check out the various…
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Print Series 2 Source material as inspiration: Striated muscle fibres of the heart. Again, I zoomed into the detail. Drawing the design: After a brief…
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Several days printing, in a residential retreat, with tutor Tony Ameneiro and 9 other keen printmakers was a great way to spend last week, and…
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It’s never too late to complete a project. You just have to become a hoarder and never discard anything. Some considerable time ago, using the…
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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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These two parts of the course introduce us to hinged spines and fastenings as well as layering and cutting back. I first created a reversible…
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Simple plant shapes from a variety of visual resources, before adding some to my alcohol inked background. I have one more coloured background but it…
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Having used alcohol inks to colour some thick textural hand-made paper I decided to use them to make a criss-cross accordion book which I’m doing…
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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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With much of my home under tarpaulins whilst we renovate, I’ve scant access to my printing, paper-making and book-making materials but managed to rustle up…
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Annette and I experimented with two different plant dye pots, mainly focusing on paper dyeing but I added some small pieces of silk noil into…
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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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This plate has printed with excellent definition. If you read my last blog post you will appreciate the beauty of the marks but the boring…
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I’ve now printed the final plate for my Other World series which I prepared and wrote about on March 11th and it’s come out very…
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Very pleased with how some of my prints have been coming out. A few more to go, and a new plate yet to print, so…
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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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Today I’m reviewing collagraph printing and how to get a variety of effects. This is both for my own reminder and as a permanent record…
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Having severe computer-eye-strain has halted progress on my blogging recently. However, I thought this trial collagraph print for my Other World project worthy of presenting…
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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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A couple of weeks ago I posted, as my image of the week, a computer generated image of my initial exploration into my theme of…
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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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5 days natural dyeing at Sturt summer school was an enjoyable way to start the new year. The course was interesting although I already knew…
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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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Reflection by Claire B Etched print, oil based inks, on 250gsm BFK Reeves paper, coloured with Inktense pigments. This is the best of the prints…
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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:…
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The goal: Take line drawings and create a workable design to print. After my initial drawings of irises and grevillea (very loosely translated) a couple…
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Sepia & a touch of black + 40% translucent on 250gsm Dutch etching paper Sepia & a touch of black, with slight blue highlight in…
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The goal: to turn solid shapes into line drawings and create variations on the theme. Part 1 For one day only, late last week, my…
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In 2014 I toured New Zealand and visited Hobbiton, the village created for the movie The Hobbit. I, personally, thought the movie was only average…
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Even though my Linear Containment book was fully completed and assembled earlier in the year I still have an itch to print the final plate…
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As can be seen from the earlier stage of this project here I cut the etched plates at an angle, leaving me with a couple…
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The goal: to create a variation on a theme. I’ve long been a fan of 1950s fashion and homeware print designs. I’m drawn to repetitive…
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This was an excellent book-binding class I attended last week. Luckily, being only one day, the tutor came with much of the book cover construction…
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Exercise 2: designing and cutting stamps The goal: to explore the possibilities of stamping as a design tool. I’ve spent the last 2 weeks carving…
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Using one of the line and shape figures I recently drew I created a new print design, then worked on some simplified and stylised flowers.…
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Remember my baby banana trees from way back in October 2016? The left-hand one, living in direct sunlight, grew enormous, had a baby, and was…
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Exercise 2: designing and cutting stamps The goal: to explore the possibilities of stamping as a design tool. I’ve decided to use an old favourite…
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Alongside the time I spend printing, drawing and whatever else I can fit in I’ve decided to undertake some exercises from a design book I…
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Combining line and a little substance, working on proportion and movement. Adding a sphere/ball/circular shape.
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Yesterday I went for my second water-colour painting class. What can I say? I’ve done part of an on-line course and last month I did…
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Jumping for joy In position Out for a stroll Help, please The world is even more amazing upside down Stepping out These are the final…