MORE WORK, BETTER IDEAS

This last week was full on: lots of interaction with students through a school trip and a number of demonstrations with paper making club, ceramic classes and one to one help as well as focusing on my own work. I am now working within a good range of medium: drawing, photography (camera less at the moment) as well as digital work, ceramics. Here are some exmaples of the work:

Recording of porcelain 'creatures' on cyanotype (blue print) paper:



Paper not yet fixed:



Fixed Images:



I am now having difficulties with creating these images as the sunlight is really weak - weather watching is of this essence at the moment!

I have also managed to do some printing and discovered that the school's printing press allows me to produce more than one image before the auto destruction of my printing plate. In previous years, my plates were always ruined after only one print, making my process extremely time consuming as I would have to produce a vast number of printing plates. This is a significant step forward and should help my experimentation process much more efficient!

Print trials to see how the printing press will affect my printing plates:







Further printing trials using masking technique with quick paper cuts:





Digital work:

Starting from drawings:



Transforming the drawing in Adobe Photoshop:





Transforming background texture in Adobe Photoshop from original photograph of tree bark:





Creating a composite picture using drawing, photograph of flowers on chapel pews on bark background:





Although these are trials, I will now have to go through a selection process and analyse what is working and what is not following my own personal criteria (which will be different for every artist you meet!)