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Decided to work up another charcoal sketch based on a continuous line drawing I did at a life drawing session a while ago. Wasn’t sure about the arm placement so thought I’d try and take a photo of my arms in a similar position…Frank helped (not 😂)…possibly the starting point for another monotype? #artistsandtheirdogs #charcoaldrawing #lifedrawing

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Rites and rituals.

One of the things I realised this last week is that when I go in to my studio, I love the ritual involved in the preparation. If I’m moving from painting to printmaking, I put the handles back on the press and shift it away from the wall to make room for the print bed.Continue reading “Rites and rituals.”

Drat, drat and double drat.

I started writing this about 15 minutes after discovering that due to dog paperwork reasons (not our fault), our summer holiday in France is off. So I apologise if what follows comes across as slightly lacking in joy, but having managed a post each week recently, I was damned if I was going to missContinue reading “Drat, drat and double drat.”

An ending and a beginning.

I think I may have actually finished a painting. I spent two final sessions working on a couple of areas I wasn’t happy with, and have got as close (I think) as I can to where I wanted it to be. This is exciting but also a problem, because now I’ve got to move onContinue reading “An ending and a beginning.”

Work in progress.

When I was on the Portfolio Course in Ullapool, one of the other students shared Sister Corita Kent’s ten rules with us as we started work on our projects for the end of course exhibition. I love these rules and each of them has helped give me a push at different points as I’ve beenContinue reading “Work in progress.”

En plein air

A sketch meet at Avebury had been scheduled for last weekend – it was cancelled but I’d wanted to spend some time drawing the stones so I thought, why not go anyway? The weather wasn’t exactly perfect (wind and drizzle forecast) but I decided to go with Sister Corita’s Rule 7: ‘The only rule isContinue reading “En plein air”

Not abandoned.

Last weekend we went to see an exhibition of Michael Simpson – selected drawings at the Holburne Museum in Bath. I always love seeing sketchbooks, preparatory drawings, unfinished paintings, as you get a glimpse of the way an artist works. His drawings were beautiful, on a variety of surfaces (paper, cardboard, found papers and evenContinue reading “Not abandoned.”

Spring is sprung…

It seems that minutes must have got shorter, as I’ve not (yet) been able to find time to follow up on my initial monotype experiments. However, I did get good news on the print making front as a I found out that the linocut I entered in the Annual Open Art Exhibition at the WhiteContinue reading “Spring is sprung…”

Finding my feet….

Having been away for a while and spent an absolutely amazing time on the Portfolio Course at Bridge House Art School in Ullapool, I’ve been trying to find a way to build on that experience now I’m back at work. One life drawing session later, and I’ve been having a great time playing with monotypesContinue reading “Finding my feet….”

More collagraphy tests…

Having had some French polish delivered at the end of last week, I created another collagraphy plate so I could try out printing the same plate both intaglio (where you pull the ink from the troughs and cuts you make in the surface of the mount board) and in relief (where the ink comes fromContinue reading “More collagraphy tests…”