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.”
Category Archives: Printmaking
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.”
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…”
Collagraphy and Chine-collé
Many thanks to Bruce who took on a whole day of ‘Frank-watch’ so I could do some work in the studio 😘. I spent time experimenting with different surfaces for making collagraphy plates and then combined this with what I’d learnt about Chine-collé to add colour. My intention was to print these as relief printsContinue reading “Collagraphy and Chine-collé”
Kate Chappell 