Studio spring cleaning

The cleaning in the studio is going well but slow as I’m sorting through all the UFP’s, I keep come across experiments that I did a will back and I can now see where I can expand on them and take them in a different way. This pile is getting very large.

The garden is a different story and an on-going one ha-ha but it will not beat me.

Untitled

Acrylic paint 

10" x 12" Boxed Canvas

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  

Not much happening this week

Well I have been busy this week been working hard making art but I can’t really say that that done anything of interest but I made a goal to try and blog at least once a week so here it is.

MonoPrint

Gelatine plate water base inks

One Down

Well we are in to February and it feels like this year has been made up of short weeks. This weekend has been another long weekend but I think it is the last one till Easter, I like that idea as it means, I do not have to stop and start and can just work though. Plus the kids are back at school so there are not so many people on the beaches. Haha

MonoPrint

Gelatine plate Acrylic paint

Happy New Year 2012

Well it’s a start of another year I hope it fined you all well and looking forward too what it may bring. Myself, I am, as there is a lot of thing I wish to do. I am planning to work harder be kind to myself and balance life. Work, play and health.

I started the year in my studio cleaning up but got bored with it so made a small mono-print

"First Night 2012"

Monoprint

W/base ink 220g printmakers paper

Jan 2012

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

Still Playing

Been making lots of Collagraph plates for the last two week playing with all sorts of different texture made in deferent ways with all kinds of stuff so now I will have to spend the next week or so to seal them all before I can have the fun of playing with the printing of them. I do enjoy the making of the plates as much as the printing of them it’s the cleanup I find hard and boring haha

A New Month

Ok back again after a brake away from the computer. I had a brake away from the computer as it was getting in the way of doing work, I would sit down to do some work on the computer and doing other thing on it a waiting hour so I went cold turkey and have not turned on it for over 3 month. So now I am back to use it as a tool not a place to just spend time.

I did get plenty of art done in this time spent away from the computer.

And now the waiting game

Been matting and framing this week getting a piece ready for my first contest of 2011 it had to be in by 4:30 on Friday afternoon the exhibition is in March so now I have to wait to see if I am accepted for it. I just love waiting for this type of thing so I have started on some other pieces for another group exhibition at the end of March.

Non Toxic Intaglio

Acrylic Resist Etched Aluminium Plait
Water Based ink

Another week down that 2 now

I was asked to look after a couple of teens last week, seeing that they were on school holidays and there parents had to work. I was not overly keen on the idea as I wanted to do some work and they did not want a babysitter, so I called the whole thing a printmaking workshop and we all had a great time. I got some work done and had fun showing them printmaking and they got to make prints and had so much fun with it that they wanted to come and do it all again this week too.

Dry Point on Plexi plate

Water Base Ink

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

A Non-Toxic Weekend

Wow what a great full on weekend. Just spent a long weekend in a beautiful corner of our country, KeriKeri Bay of Islands at Mark Graver’s Non-Toxic Printmaking Studio set in the amazing gardens of Wharepuke. We had a hands on 2 day Acrylic Resist Etching - non toxic intaglio work shop.

Non Toxic Intaglio
Acrylic Resist Etched Aluminium Plait

Water Based ink

Non Toxic Intaglio
Acrylic Resist Etched Aluminium Plait

Water Based ink



Non Toxic Intaglio
Acrylic Resist Etched Aluminium Plait

Water Based ink

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

Play Time at Art Group

Well its May allready this year must have its Roller-Skates on it will be October befor you know it.

At art group I played around with making some monoprints so the other could see how i make my monoprints

MonoPrint W/B ink

May 2010

MonoPrint W/B ink

May 2010

MonoPrint W/B ink

May 2010

MonoPrint W/B ink

May 2010

First off the new Press

Well I did not get my wish for a larger studio but I did get a larger printmaking press the rollers are 52 cm wide so I can play with making much larger prints its so much fun.

MonoPrint ( W/B inks on A3)

April 2010

Time to clean

I spent this weekend cleaning up my workshop and my studio what a big job haha, but i did take some time out to play and do some printmaking. This is one of the prints.

"untitled"

oil based ink

March 2010

Trial plexi plait prints

I did get around to play aprint up some of the plexi plaits I make but did not get round to blog the results, so here they are i quite like them.