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

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

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

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.

-/-

This is a Dry point print playing with line.

Dry Point on Plexi plate
Water Base Ink

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

Just a little Blue

Been a busy week this week the time shore fly when you having fun

This is just a little colligraph plate I proofed looking at textures

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

First Week of the year

Well that week went fast one down and 51 more to come. Spent most of the week trying to work in my studio but it is small and over the xmas holidays it has been use as extra place to put stuff so when I came to work in it the flow was all wrong and I felt like I was falling over myself, so I had a mad fit and moved every thing out and gave it a good clean and put it all back in the way I can use it and it feels great to work init again.

Been playing and looking for acrylic and house products that will work as grounds and resists that will work with the nontoxic metal salts etching on aluminium.

Non Toxic Intaglio Acrylic Resist Etched Aluminium Plait
Water Based 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