Category: My Creative Pieces
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Still loving this print! If you haven’t seen the progression of this project click here for stage 1 and here for stage 2 For my…
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Just loving this project! This week I’ve been concentrating on making a second plate to print with the etching I’ve already prepared. I’m aiming for…
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Whilst having a huge clean-up at Primrose Park recently (the home of Primrose Paper Artists) one of our members came across a couple of bags…
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I’ve been desperately trying to get back to my ‘One & Twenty’ routine. OK, hardly a routine, but I’d like it to be. The idea…
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My friend Judy & I decided to have a go at this. I’ve never done it before, never seen it done and haven’t watched any…
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Following on from my last post, this week I pulped some more of my old print proofs (yes, you’ve guessed it, I have quite a…
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About 18 months ago I shredded some of my print proofs and recycled them into new paper, ready to be printed on again. At that…
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After further cutting on my first plate, it was time to take a new print proof of both the positive and negative images. Loving the…
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Back in February I was messing around with paper-making and tea-staining (blog post here) and, using Photoshop, I ‘cut’ out a couple of random tree…
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A couple of years ago, in a Jet James workshop, I made this print plate from 3mm foamex board (anyone following my blog will know…
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Doodling & Designing: I read in one of those zentangle books that a good way to start doodling is to draw a nine square grid…
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I finally found time to use my teabag pulp (made in February) into A4 sheets of paper. I defrosted the pulp and was surprised at…
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Using my original collagraph plate (see previous posts) as a reference I started to plan a larger version with a little more complexity. The sand…
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Continuing to play with the collagraph plate I made in the workshop with Gabriella Hegyes (see initial print left) I’ve been trying to get some…
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Part 3: Collagraphs: The first thing I love about collagraphs is that there is so much you can do to create an image. I’ve done…
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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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I had a HUGE day yesterday. I was engaged to teach 41 year 9, 10 and 11 girls how to felt. I’ve done it twice…
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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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I’ve been lacking in inspiration and drive recently so this workshop came at the right time. Messing around with a group of like-minded people, using…
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Working with my semi prepared swiss cheese plant (Monstera Deliciosa) fibre that I prepared here and here I started shaping and mixing the fibre with…
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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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Well, quite a few days have passed whilst I’ve been playing with teabag staining sheets of my own hand-made paper to use for chine collé…
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Yes, I know, teabags are old-hat. Everyone works with them. However, in my view, they are cheap, readily available, durable but lightweight, stain well, and…
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My involvement in Sturt Summer School last week provided me with the time and focus to try a variety of drawing media and learn some…
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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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Having started down the route of learning to make paper from plant material (see previous posts re Monstera Deliciosa trials) I spent a day with…
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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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(aka The Boy and his Dream) Elian and I first became acquainted in 2005 when I created him as a forest elf for a promotional…
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Every day I brave the bush, climb up and down a rope, navigate fallen trees and boulders and try to avoid being attacked by snakes,…
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This is something that I have no experience of and, I feel, no real affinity for. However, someone very kindly ‘donated’ a starter kit for…
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Yesterday, after another period of boiling my swiss cheese plant fibre I let it cool down in the pot overnight. This morning, out it came…
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Ever since seeing a friend pulping banana leaf & stalk and then later turning it into wonderful textural paper sheets I’ve been wanting to have…
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Even though I’ve been busy elsewhere I still managed to find time to drag my remaining denim pulp out and form some new sheets. Blue,…
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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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Back at Primrose Park I liberated my pulped-denim vat, gave it a good stir and started making paper. My aim was to produce some quality…
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This was a strenuous, fun, NOISY day! My first experience with transforming an old pair of jeans into paper. The jeans were cut up, all…
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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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Whilst I’ve recently concentrated on making my own paper from some of my old prints (and blank paper offcuts) by pulping, remixing and forming new…
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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…
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A short tutorial on creating personal designs for chine collé print techniques. I acquired a single sheet of lightweight printed paper which I wish to…
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An interesting one day workshop, not something I see myself doing a lot of but another skill I’m exploring. This technique requires the use of…
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Connectivity Item: Wall hanging Size: 580mm x 760mm Materials: 250gsm BFK Reeves paper, water-colour, graphite & stitch Façade: a superficial appearance or illusion of something.…