March 23rd, 2012 | Add your Feedback (0)
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Mumble, grumble, mumble … *)
Rabbit No. 4 now drying in studio ^_^…
I finally have a couple of prints from all current editions and can start on something new!
Hmmm, maybe some more copper sulphate etchings?
Will see…
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*) the Artist would like to express her annoyance with the treacherous Fates of printmaking, but
a) she does not want to bore you
b) she actually is afraid said Fates might be listening…
… shhh!
March 20th, 2012 | Add your Feedback (0)
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The Beaver drying on newsprint
Now. There are good days in the Printstudio and there are …
…. not so good days. Last Friday nobody was there to let me in. Now, that’s kind of okay, I was 30 minutes late, so I had to wait another 30 minutes for Nick to come back from lunch …^_^… fair enough.
But. It then took me over an hour to figure out that the black smudges on my prints are not caused by my dirty fingers; a person, of very little brain, used the water-bath to colour their paper with black ink. Naturally he-she-it cleaned it just bad enough for the next person to not see the stains on the edges and even the glass to dry the paper on….
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Anyway, all is well that ends well, and I left with 5 good Beaver prints ^_^…
February 17th, 2012 | Add your Feedback (0)
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Puh! What a relief. It took almost three month to replace my old, for-some-reason-not-available-any-more @#$%^&, printing paper. After I had tried every other paper available in Wellington, wasting an obscene amount of time and money, I sent a sample to Fine Art Paper in Christchurch, and encountered friendly, even exceptional, helpfulness! Small samples were sent, selections made, bigger samples were sent, proofs printed, paper ordered, paper sent, and finally today: a paper-stress-free day in the print studio!
The kind of darkness…, etching by minu
For copper sulphate etchings, I’ll use Tiepolo, made in Italy. It has a warm white colour, a smooth surface, and withstands rigorous pressures. It is mould-made out of 100% acid-free cotton.
For the Afternoon Tea series – and most other drypoint on Perspex or PET series – I’ll use the new Revere paper, because of its slightly whiter colour. The 100% cotton paper is made in Italy by Magnani, with a nice ecological touch ^_^ using hydro energy and no chlorine.
I can highly recommend both papers for all intaglio printmaking techniques.
All is good that ends good.
Many thanks again to Fine Arts Paper.
November 12th, 2011 | Add your Feedback (0)
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After a chat with Basia Smolnicki at Inverlochy about copper sulphat etching, I googled the topic and found this sentence on nontoxicprint.com:
“The characteristic of aluminum is the crystalline structure within the metal, which is revealed by the copper sulfate’s action. This means there is no need for aquatinting to get solid color or lighter tints of any hue.”
In short: no more messing around with powdered resin or spray colour! I had to try this!
Last week I had all the materials together and started on a test etch. It works! So I went on and etched my first aluminium sheet. Now, I won’t tell you how I did it… seeing that I did everything wrong ^_^; however, it still worked (kind of).
I’ll do it the right way next time and take some pictures of the process ^_^…
Exciting!
September 22nd, 2011 | Add your Feedback (0)
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I am finally back in the studio where I catch up with my toy making. The online shops are back online and the first new prints from the New Zealand Art Show are available online ^_^. The first new set of bears will be shipped later this week. Thank you for your patience ….again.
I had a good time in Germany and I enjoyed my stay in Berlin immensely. I took many, many images of street art. This one of my favorites…
There are many more pictures on Flickr.
February 3rd, 2011 | Add your Feedback (0)
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Time to get back to some printmaking ^_^…
… First proof on brown paper …
… Woodcut plate in progress …
… The sketch …
August 16th, 2010 | Add your Feedback (0)
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Monday was Set-up day… some of us did not get much sleep in the days before the show ^_^…
That was the first time I actually saw the bear standing up… The foot claws and the leaves were still in the making.
The bear is growing up …
The little shadow box in the making…
August 11th, 2010 | Add your Feedback (1)
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This is work for the Head on group show. I am a bit frantic because I am seriously running out of time, but in between panic attacks it is actually fun. For this show I pick up the ‘awoke’ series. This is ‘The Bringer of Dreams’. I am working on one of the little boxes I did for the NZ Art Show and a 2.2m installation.
Awoke: The Bringer of Dreams, Box, Work in Progress
Awoke: The Bringer of Dreams, Box, Work in Progress
Awoke: The Bringer of Dreams, Installation, Work in Progress
Keep the fingers crossed for me that this is actually going to work out all right!
July 26th, 2010 | Add your Feedback (0)
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Tomorrow is set-up for the show. Puh! I did not manage to get everything done, but I at least wanted to get one of the boxes ready for the show ^_^…
Shadow Box, Detail – Work in Progress
Shadow Box – Work in Progress
July 22nd, 2010 | Add your Feedback (0)
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I am slowly getting there … ^_^… this is one of the Acrylic Painting in progress.
Work in Progress, Acrylic Painting, ‘Fragile Shadow’ Preview
Work in Progress, Acrylic Painting, ‘Fragile Shadow’ Preview
July 19th, 2010 | Add your Feedback (1)
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Afternoon Tea – The Badger, Preview
Next to the ‘Fragile Shadow’ works, new ‘Afternoon Tea’ prints will be part of my wall at the New Zealand Art Show 2010 as well. This one is the badger and my favorite so far ^_^…
Afternoon Tea – The Badger, Preview Detail
July 6th, 2010 | Add your Feedback (1)
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Note a couple of weeks later: These totally did not work the way I imagined them. They look totally wrong to me. I will work on the idea, but these will go in the bin ^_^. See my little note on ‘Failure and Achievement ‘.
Stitch. Stitch.. Stitch… Stitch….
I am busy and a bit frantic to get my artwork ready for the show.
Work in Progress – mixed media artwork – Drypoint etching and stitching.
Work in Progress – mixed media artwork – Drypoint etching and stitching.
Stitch. Stitch.. Stitch… Stitch….
I think you get the picture ^_^…
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