Family and Friends

Well that’s a good start to the New Year my studio and myself were hijacked for the week. My wife and a friend decided that I was going to run an impromptu Acrylic paint texture workshop. It went very well and we had a lot of fun and ended up with same nice pieces each. So it goes to show that the best laid plan can all ways be retract at this time of year when you have friends around hahaha but its always nice and fun

Dry point (2" x 3")

Ed of 10

Yay a bit of good News

Opened my Emails this morning and this was the firsts sentence of the first Email I opened.

“Congratulations! Your artwork has been selected for the 2011 finalists’ exhibition, from which the overall winner will be chosen! There was a very high calibre of work and it will be a wonderful exhibition.”

I am so pleased, as this is the third time I have entered the exhibition, I did not make the cut last year. So Yay to me.

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This is a Dry point print playing with line.

Dry Point on Plexi plate
Water Base 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

Marks and Mediums

Just made some plexi plates to test out what I will get using different acrylic mediums and tool

I have used different mediums by there self and combined with each other plus been try different tools to apply it and work into it to see what marks I will get when it come to making a print of the of them.

Now I have to wait for them to dry properly and then find the time to make the print this is so exciting.

Creaping Ink

Had a play with dry point printmaking

Dry point oil base ink

220g printmaker paper