Several of this series have gone to new homes including these sold at Artigo, Bristol. I am working on several more, some larger.
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City – a series of textile art
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Drypoint on Acrylic
Printmakers: Instructional videos are two-a-penny but not on this subject and not with this level of clarity. Acrylic sheets may not be everyone’s choice but are fairly cheap and can be sent for recycling.
Belinda Del Pesco is an accomplished printmaker, her YouTube channel has 40 instructional videos.
It is possible to do intaglio printmaking with simple equipment and Handprinted have produced instructions for exactly that using the X-Cut Express (die cutter beloved of card makers and some printmakers). Drypoint printing being an intaglio process requires more pressure than relief print but good results are possible. I have also used sticky-back aluminium foil stuch down on acrylic sheet then engraved using a rounded tip tool so as not to tear into the foil.
These are all etched on acrylic.
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Keep Shopping!
This is an old theme but stands some repetition at the current time. Just a pic for social media.
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Printmaking again
Not having a ‘wet’ studio I must make do by printmaking in the kitchen, not ideal but still possible to get likeable results, I hope.
As a long-term project I want to make a series of prints of Church Road people. The A420 runs from Bristol to Oxford but the part I’m interested in is from Lawrence Hill to St. George Park, about a mile, with Easton on the northern side and Redfield on the southern leading down to the river Avon at Netham lock and Barton Hill. I started with some drypoint etching of several folk and today I’ve been adding some colour to one of those sets of prints by making a collagraph plate.
And also doing some more printing from drypoint plates. There isn’t any shortage of subject matter around here, many colourful and friendly characters and bubbling street life. We have live music at the George and Dragon pub every Tuesday or more often, several good places to eat and the Plough Inn in Easton – scene of great music and good food – is just a stroll away. I would like to capture a little all of these riches, and more.
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Night Garden in frame
The Night Garden fabric piece is now beautifully framed by Craftworks on Gloucester Road, Bristol and on sale at Artigo also on Gloucester Road.
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Night Garden 1 (almost finished)
Almost finished, this piece has been hanging around for months waiting for some inspiration as to how to finish it. I tried adding a mouse but that didn’t work well. When in doubt, stitch, but now I’m afraid of wrecking what there is. The surface is rather fragile as it is mainly nunofelt with scraps of fabric below, all stitched and embellished.
One day later… I added a little more stitch, tried to reemphasise the cat but subtly then, deciding it was finished I added a backing. Next a gently wash then seal with very dilute pva. Then press and a frame of some sort.
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More Cracks in the System
Trying to get into the groove again after doing very little for two months and not much for some time before that! This is on cheap A3 drawing pad paper but the next ones will be on oil pastel paper which has a textured surface. It’s a fast way to create an image but can be hard to cover any mistakes or unwanted marks.
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Cracks in the System
One of the larger piece in the series I called City, but I’m not sure about the framing.
With the current framing £160 but I would be willing to consider alternative framing. I can supply more detailed photographs.
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Another fabric abstract
When I was making or remaking embellished work of this type a year or more ago I categorised them all as part of sets called either Meltdown or City, (1,2,3 etc) but later some of them seemed to find other names. This one is now In the Sun. Most of the pics I put on this blog or elsewhere are quite low resolution by current online standards but this one has a few more pixels.
It can be satisfying to take colour to an extreme.
This is an ode I wrote and illustrated for my granddaughter a few years ago, an antidote to the sickly hearts and roses (but not chocs, obviously).
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