A New Year Dawns

Happy New Year All

Well we all seem to have got through another Christmas and we have a whole new year ahead of us.

As all ways on New Year’s Day I try to spend it in my studio printmaking in the hope to start the New Year in the way I would like the rest of the year to play out.

This is one of the mono prints I made:  A New Year Dawns 

 A New Year Dawns

Monoprint 

Jan 2013

So again I would like to wish you all prospers and creative New Year

Change As Good As a Rest

Change As Good As a Rest so they tell me. Well my wife and I went on a 3 day retreat at my friend’s studio and retreat this weekend. Spent all day Thursday cleaning up and packing my print shop up I had no idea what I was going to need for the week end so I took almost everything we set off just after lunch time on Friday and drove for 2 hour to get there we had plenty of time to look around on the way. Over the week end I did an impromptu demo on relief printing made 10 wood grain texture plates 2 woodcut blocks, a linocut and 2 dry points plus I got to proof them all. All in all I had a really great weekend I hope you all had one too.    

Woodcut proof

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

In the shadow of the mountain

I’m really looking forward to the first art group of the New Year, to meet up with artist friends at a friend’s studio. Her studio is right under a mountain range and puts on a different mood each day, it’s a great day working, talking, sharing ideas plus we have a marvellous pot luck lunch. The only down side of the day is when we have to pack up and drive home, but we came start to looking forward to the next time haha.

Woodcut (Recycle block)

Safewash ink on 220gm Print paper

Ed of 5

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

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

Now that Over with

Ok now that Christmas Day and Boxing Day are over with for another year or at lease 364 day I can start kicking all the stuff out of my studio which was hidden in there for Christmas day and I can start thinking about project to do in the New Year.

Woodcut (Recycle block)

Safewash ink on 220gm Print paper

Ed of 5

That Time of Year

Well it’s that time of year again were I can not move in my studio, as in the process of getting ready for the family Christmas dinner every thing that we do not like the look of, need to hide or need just to put some were for the day has ended up in my studio.

So there is no bench space to work on and no floor space to move, but it is a small price to pay to have a great meal and a fun time with family and friends plus the good thing is the day after I can start moving it all out again and have my studio to myself again.  

Woodcut (Recycle block)

Safewash ink on 220gm Print paper

Ed of  5

A feel of the Pacific

Ok keeping with my recycled wood block prints

Woodcut (Recycle block)

Safewash ink on 220gm Print paper

Ed of 5

That time of year again

Will its December again and the silly season is on us again and people are starting to shift into high gear getting ready for Christmas and the summer holidays.

Everything in the garden are growing and going mad including lawns and weeds so there plenty work there to do.

I have had two Members Art Exhibition openings on the 1^st December at two local community art centres.

I did get the last colour done my xmas prints finished, I had so much fun playing will them that I have decided to carry on and play with the recycled wood block printing into the new year

“I R not Turkey”

Woodcut (Recycle block)

Safewash ink on 220gm Print paper

Ed of 18

One more colour to go

Nearly done, had to let the prints have a day to dry between colours, one more colour to go and them it time to tidy them up, sign and title them and see how many are left in this edition.

Underway

Ok I have my print well underway I have cut all the block. There are 4 blocks and I’m going to use 6 colours..

I have also decided on the method of printing and for the registration of the print plus I have been play with the colours

And on a different Note

Today I thought I would try my hade at making some small hard covered note book. Had a great deal of fun and it has opened up a hole lot of new ideas that I can’t wait to try.

Small hard covered note books X4

Handmade