Red Tides

Red Tides, a set on Flickr.

More monotypes

Monotype landscape

Monotype landscape, a set on Flickr.

Monotypes I have been working on

Blue Tides

Blue Tides, a set on Flickr.

My latest printmaking project

Collograph plates for artist book

These are my collograph plates ready for printing. The plates are for the assignment we have to do for printmaking at TAFE. There are eight plates. They will be printed as an artist book.

Three colour collograph

This is the first assignment for Visual Arts Print Making Year 2 

I started by making three collograpgh plates from pasteboard and proofing them to see what I had.

Then came the decision about colours. Because the three plates are printed on top of each other the colour combination is delicate.

After several attempts I found that low contrast worked best. Here is the evolution.

The plates are around 20 x 25 cm - a bit less than A4.

The first three are the proof plates.

 

I wound up not using the last plate but introduced a fourth plate - stripes on the sides

Brunswick St Gallery Small Works

I submitted three works for the Brunswick St Small Works exhibition.
http://bsgart.com.au/
The show runs until mid January

I am very pleased with them all.
They are 28 x 23cm in black frames.

This first one is based on my favourite poem, Death of th Bird by AD Hope.

Read the entire poem here

http://www.australianliterarycompendium.com/birdpoem.html

The second is a collograph I did in Sicily

The third is a giclee print - the image is a montage of my original photographs combined in Adobe Photoshop.

Collograph workshop

A workshop on Sunday at the Papermaker's society learning to make and print collographs