Spring is Here and a New Broom

Ok it’s the 1^st September and that means is spring here and it’s one off the nicest days we have had in a long time blue skies and fluffy white clouds

So im going to start my spring cleaning with a week of cleaning out my studio and workshop and getting the garden in to shape

Its hard looking though all the UFP’s and deciding which one to carry on with, which ones to pack away for later and which ones are beyond hope and mead to be recycled.   

mono/type relief print

Tea and Black Ink 

World Roast Day

What a great excuse to have a nice roast meal of roast beef and Yorkshire puddings and roast veg with family and friends    

mono/type relief print

Tea and Black Ink 

Last of Winter Blues

OK i'm getting really tired of this winter.

So I'm going to try to shake myself out of the blue and start to get back in to making art 

ATC 

Relief print  

Still busy

This years moving along so fast here we are in the middle of spring, the weather is very unsettled and plenty of hard work to beat the garden back in to shape so there will be some fresh veggies on the table, plus they tell me a hand fall of week till its Christmas again. So it must be time to start my xmas card print.

Monotye relief Collagraph
paper and shellac collage plait
water based ink on 250gm paper

End of another one

It’s just funny how one minute you are planning the month ahead of you and the next it’s over and you have to start planning the next.
This month has been very busy I started by planning every thing that needed to go into the month, events, openings, deadlines, workshop, art group meetings and other stuff that needed to be done, so I did them as they came up and the month just flow by and its time to start planning for the next one. This year is running away at its own pace with wings to help it along.

“Tranformation #75“

MonoType ink ¼ sheet 300g printmaker paper
June 2011

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all, I would like to thank all the people that have taken the time to read and follow my blog. The end of last year came up real fast and I had projects unfinished and not started but this is a hole New Year completely unmarred and a clean canvas for all.

I have also taken the time to make a list of some of the goals I would like to achieve this year and the first is to keep my Blog up to date more often and try to make it more interesting for the people that take the time to read it.

I went in to my studio to clean it up a bit, a bit of a slow start in the morning and found my self playing with the inks instead of cleaning ended up make a couple of monotypes.

So with all that said here is the first monotype of the year

“New Year #2“
MonoType
W/B ink ¼ sheet 300g printmaker paper

Jan 2011

First Cuts of November

Got asked to do a bit of a printmaking demo to a small group so did a lino cut and printed a monotype background with block lino cut relief over the top in water base inks on printmaker’s paper

Monotype and Block lino cut relief

water base inks 220g paper
Nov 2010

Inked up

This year is just racing along and it is still raining but least the ground is not shaking up here. Made the most of a day to myself, got out the oil based inks and played all day printing paper and shellac collage plaits.

monotye relief Collagraph

paper and shellac collage plait

oil based ink on 250gm paper

monotye relief Collagraph

paper and shellac collage plait
oil based ink on 250gm paper