Having recently put aside a pile of gelatine plate prints that needed more layers, I finally got them all out yesterday and started to add the new stencil work to them. They do still need final focal points, but I really like these ones shown below.
Tuesday, 19 July 2022
Sunday, 17 July 2022
Addictive?
Cutting stencils is becoming an addictive past time! I haven't even used this one below in art work yet, but it was fun to design and to cut it out. I think that I probably make all my stencils a bit too busy, but I can always remove bits later on if that's the case. They are A4 size, 21cm x 30 cm. which is one of the reasons why I don't like commercial stencils, they are too small and I like my art to be all my own work.
Thursday, 14 July 2022
Stencils Again.
After a short diversion with the collagraph, I designed and cut another stencil based on the original curled vine photo. Below is the stencil and one of the resulting prints.
I love the blue and orange together, and leaving some of the area white appeals, but over all I think that it might just be too busy. I suppose that it depends on what I do next with it however.
Wednesday, 6 July 2022
Challenge
It's been quite a long while since I constructed a collagraph plate, so it was interesting to get back into it recently in response to a challenge put out by the tutor of an online class that I did some time ago. The challenge was to use packaging materials to make a plate and to print it. I used some expanding brown packing paper, the bottom of a take away container and some very small 'useless' cake papers to construct my plate.
I don't have a proper printing press, so I used my cold press laminator. However I soon found that I didn't have enough contrast between the textures, so I either got a very dense or very light print. The one below is of course the light one.
After a bit of thought I decided not to try for a better print but to enhance the light one with water-colours, and I'm happy that I did as I rather like the result.
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