Category Archives: My prints

Printing for my own enjoyment

Design Play: Circuit Project – More grids

Posted on May 19, 2019 by

Loved the grid experiments in my last post so continued down this path this week with some great results. Sequin waste was cut to shape and placed over an inked acetate sheet.  This was run through the press and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Design Play, My Creative Pieces, My prints | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Design Play: Circuit Project – More backgrounds

Posted on May 16, 2019 by

More background experimentation – yep, I’m not done yet Whilst making book samples recently I’ve been mulling over my Circuit project.  I’ve tried quite a few different ideas as background bases for my connections and circuitry to sit upon but, … Continue reading →

Posted in Design Play, My Creative Pieces, My prints | Tagged | Leave a comment

Natural Dyeing with Annette

Posted on April 4, 2019 by

Annette and I experimented with two different plant dye pots, mainly focusing on paper dyeing but I added some small pieces of silk noil into one pot. A large amount of rosemary leaves were stripped and added to around 10 … Continue reading →

Posted in General fun pursuits, My Creative Pieces, My prints | Tagged | Leave a comment

Collagraph prints: Other World – final print plate

Posted on March 17, 2019 by

This plate has printed with excellent definition.  If you read my last blog post you will appreciate the beauty of the marks but the boring outcome of the overall plate. For those of you learning about collagraphs this demonstrates how … Continue reading →

Posted in My Creative Pieces, My prints | Tagged | Leave a comment

Collagraph tutorial – part 2

Posted on March 16, 2019 by

I’ve now printed the final plate for my Other World series which I prepared and wrote about on March 11th and it’s come out very well, but there is a point I wish to stress about this kind of printing … Continue reading →

Posted in General Arts, My Creative Pieces, My prints | Tagged | Leave a comment

Collagraph prints: Other World – initial selection

Posted on March 13, 2019 by

Very pleased with how some of my prints have been coming out.  A few more to go, and a new plate yet to print, so I have a choice of which ones I’ll use for my final selection. Like the … Continue reading →

Posted in My Creative Pieces, My prints | Tagged | 2 Comments

Design Play: Exercise 5 – Textures – Part 3

Posted on March 11, 2019 by

‘Other World’ Print Plates In my post of 16th February I created my first 3 collagraph print plates for this series + 2 masks.  Here are plates 6 & 7, the final ones for this body of work. PLATE 6 … Continue reading →

Posted in Design Play, My Creative Pieces, My prints | Tagged , | 3 Comments