riots in hackney

my last blog didn't arrive here for some reason which is good - panic over - john got home ok.  main trouble is in and around his estate at moment.  car burning 3 blocks from me.  and it's not dark yet

still ok on tuesday morning

scary looter:  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=442976909814&set=a.313868994814.194924.310716489814&type=1&theater

I will start a Baking label

Can just smell my bread cooking.  can't find my pics of cupcakes i made for kids party but i promise good things to come.  It's all art!  In my case, abstract.   I hope it will encourage me to use all the baking gadgets i have.

Print making 4

Paint a picture on metal plate with ink or oil paint then place wet paper on top rub on back.

that's all folks

Print making 3

Linocuts i found really difficult.  It's the reverse of what you think will be printed hence i cut out wrong things sometimes.   I also couldn't bring myself to destry the linocut to do mulitple colours - you cut some out, print, cut out more, then print with diff colour etc etc.  If i can find it i will show an incredible artist mad version of this technique.

This first one is copy of the window in the church in Trafalgar Square.

the following shows how i cut out wrong bits -but i still like it a bit

2 etched flowers

Printing done by gluing things on card - textured collaged, aplying ink, laying on paper and putting thru press.  It can give you an embossing too.

Print making 2

bad pic but example of scratching either into specially plastic coated sheet for printing or even just use any packaging that has shiny surface

3 monoprints - drawing on back of sheet lain on inked metal/glass sheet

 

The following are done by placing inks on metal then wiping ink away for light areas, drawing lines into the ink and perhaps adding colours, then placing sheet on top and printing (putting thru the press which i'd like to have but i have seen friend who just leaves under lots of books for days).  You can sometimes get a second or third print but they will be pale - see second woman's face, i also added colour before printing again.

the following one is french term i can't remember - collage and printing at the same time.

The following are done by scratching into polystyrene.  The first one - 2 prints, the styren sheet was cut into different segments so i could leave out some segments for second print.

white ink on black paper

brown ink on black paper

etching copied from da vinci

Print making 1

I wanted to learn how make prints - especially of own work so i did all the print classes - 4 - at mary ward last year to find out how the different process work - screen printing, photographic screenprint (the only one you could use to print an existing artwork), etching, monoprinting, linocut,.  They're not great but i will definately do a lot more work.

an etching of john, wonky eyed,  scratched into metal then black ink added.

etching of hand of dead soldier's wife holding hanky - yeah i know - printed serveral times in diff colours

on the first day of class we had to draw each other using monoprint (ink on meta/glass plate, lay down paper on it, drraw on back of paper, then lift and see result.  i looked old but i love it.

3 different methods of etching ie 3 drawings of nun like figure

SCREEN PRINTING

and old drawing - the only good one i did in 2008 in that first class, done with ink, which is why i feel good about ink -i couldn't believe i had done this.  So,this is what i wanted to reproduce as a print.  First used a photoshop black and white special screen print setting to print out onto paper - very dotty.  Then painted screen with special photographic emulsion, brushed oil on the print of skull to make the paper see thru, put the pic on the screen then turned on the light for a few minutes and the image burned into the emulsion on the screen.  Washed of the screen and did lots of print onto fabrics, old pyjamas, tshirt and vests -as screen would be reused.

On another screen i had drawn this pic on butchers paper, cut out the it i wanted ink to show, stuck it on the screen and printed.  where the butchers paper is the ink doesn't get thru the sereen

this is the reverse done with the bit that i had cut out

i put this piece thru both screens

a variety of versions

 this one i did by making cutout of cap and jewellery and printing on top of skeelton print.  I put it on back of art overall i made out of workmens veralls which i undid the legs and resewed as full length overall - just in case i do oils i dont trust myself

These 3 prints of an etching i did show how getting the right amount of ink on the plate needs to be practiced.  It also shows how you can wipe ink of areas of the plate where you want hightlights, although this is another technique.  In this etching i should have scratched enough lines in the darker shaded areas to give depth, then could have wiped ink off plate to leave ink only in scratches.

Shading

An example of shading done well.  It's a pencil drawing i bought in Margate Gallery, supposedly school of Augustus John. Though i like freer styles i want to be able to do this - get the technique and discipline first.

My lounge

some pics i took before moving things around and deciding where to put pics. It's a mess and crowded - you can see all my china things i've collected for still lifes/craft projects perhaps.  This is where i live mostly and do some art stuff.

bought pic and my pic

the corner of stuff

the table i drew

started having lots of flowers round like basler

the blue acrylic landscape painting i bought for £25 from Peter Hodson who belieives art should be for everyone

one of my life drawings in ink. you can just see i started to paint cupboard in a rough stroke grey - it's now lighter rough grey ready for my attempt at a basler one day

3 pics above my computer:  top one is strange leg drawing i did - looks half like an arm.   bottom left is the very first piece of art i bought on a farm in the lake district for £20 and the bottom right a mixed media piece i did last year with pictures, wax and gold leaf.