Connections
I have just been chatting to the Arts Development manager Caroline Hewat here at Cromarty Arst Trust where I am working about connections and how the work I am making now relates to my past work. I...
View Articleand finally today
a wet one, just a corner detail as it's taped to a desk and I can't get up high enough to capture the whole piece
View Articlethank you
Thank you Olga and Gill for your lovely comments....For some bizarre reason I don't seem able to post/reply in the comments box...I am looking in to it...
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Ok lovely visitors.....After a bit of research I have now hopefully made it easier for you all to comment on my blog. And thank you to Jacqui for directing me to the appropriate information. It...
View ArticlePhotopolymer Printmaking
Printing at the Highland print centre this weekend making a photopolymer print in weekend workshop. First test print taken from one of the cyanotype seaweed prints section test print of image below
View ArticleEmbossment Test
I was disappointed with this woodcut....that's what happens when you are restricted by outside forces and not free to rome as it were but I enjoyed bashing out this embossment print with a scrubbing...
View ArticleThe bigger Print
Ok....so I am creating a couple of big prints. I have hand embossed two sheets of Fabriano 50/50 gorgeous paper....with the large woodcut of seaweed. They are currently drying out. I found this fab...
View ArticleHeading towards a first good final print
Just hoping I have not jumped the gun here by the statement in my title. So using a full size sheet of Fabriano 50/50 gorgeous paper, it's lovely white printmaking paper, I have created two...
View ArticleThe other cut out
This blogger blog is infuriating...my apologies for images not in the right place...this is due to trying to get the image I want to appear on facebook and where as you used to be able to choose which...
View ArticleTest Prints...fairly successful I think
So as the large embossed prints below took so long to print without a press I decided to do some small ones to work out colours and composition. Really pleased and excited with them.So first off I...
View ArticleOpen Studio at Ardyne, Cromarty Arts Trust
Had a wonderful day opening my studio. I had thought to cancel as we blown away the day before with a storm that left us powerless for 24 hours and some of Cromarty all over the weekend. The weather...
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Testing my new prints....wind drawings on top of monoprints, not quite sure this is working visually yet but cracking onThe set up! This seaweed that I like using (think it's kelp) is sometimes...
View ArticleTesting some samples
Having a technological battle with scanners and printers today. The epson printer has decided to choose it's own colours and it won't head clean grrrrSo working out some solutions to finish these...
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Really pleased with the tests I have been doing...but it's a hard job trying to dry the prints flat. The covered bricks I use have had a moonlight job to do keeping up the broken middle post of a...
View ArticleGoing Insane
Trying to take photos of my work......basically trying to get all images looking the same and taking photos of white paper is almost impossible. Todays efforts so far...
View ArticleGood Photos
Well I have spent the last few days trying to take good solid photographs that show up the embossment and don't have weird bits of extraneous colour randomly scattered over the image. And I think this...
View ArticleWorking at the Moray Art Centre Studio
I have decided that my beach gatherings are going to be very thoughtful. In that I mean I am going to try to be very selective about what I bring back to the studio. As usual it takes me time to...
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