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

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

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

Got to love pastels

Still working hard digging the veggie patch, it so nice to take an hours brake and play with my soft pastels

Small Flowers Oct 2010-#2

Soft Pastels on light blue grey Fabriano pastel paper (8"x 10")

Oct 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

Open Studio Printmaking Workshop

This weekend was a long Easter weekend four day off so I had an open studio printmaking workshop. It was great fun and a lot hard work and the place was a buzz with creative energy. Boy was I tired on Monday evening. Think I need to find a larger studio it, will come.

MonoPrint

April 2010

MonoPrint

April 2010

MonoPrint

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

A 2 day printmaking workshop weekend

Have just spent the last two day in a weekend printmaking workshop with Bev Turloff, a very talented printmaker and artist. It was Bev’s first workshop in her new studio. It was a full on workshop, lot of thing to think about, a great group of people and the view out side the studio window was to die for.

monotype/monoprint

Feb 2010

monoprint

Feb 2010

monotype/monoprint

Feb 2010

Full proof

The finished small set of alphabet lonocut tobe used as elements in some monoprints im going to do next

New Year 2010

Happy New Year all. Had a late night with wife, family and friends. Had a slow start this morning went into my studio did not now what to do there was not a clear work space as the unwanted bits and bobs from before Christmas found there way into my studio. It took me around 6 hour to find it and boy it look good I can get to all my work areas and have plenty of room to spread out.

Went back out and played in my nice clean and tidy studio after tea and made this monoprint “2010”

MonoPrint

"2010"

W/B Printer ink

Print Size: 8 1/2" x 6 1/2"

Jan 2010