Winter Weekend.

With Winter just a couple of days away, the weather could have been anything during this past weekend, warm, cold or very cold. We were lucky however as although it was very cold at night, (1°C) the days were sunny and almost warm!

            Early in the mornings the frost on the bracken ferns and other vegetation was so very pretty.

The mist rising from the melting frost with the reflections in the water made an early morning start very worthwhile.

What's The Point?

 I've just had this final print hung at an exhibition, so I thought that I would now put the last few stages of the print up here.The picture below shows the background gelatine print with the hand carved rubber stamps cut out and placed on the print to decide where they should finally go.

 

Below shows the hands printed in black block print ink with lines and circles added in fine-liner pen.

 

Then comes the highlighting of some elements with gold ink.

             With all those pointing fingers the only title that came to mind was 'What's the Point?'

Failed Prints.

 We all have those prints, ones that just don't make the grade, but have parts of them that are O.K.

I decided to assemble bits of a series of gelatin  prints with similar colours and with underwater images into a collage. The bits are all different sizes, but the colours unify the whole.