Here are a few more in the City series, all completed this year. All the City series are deeply textured, and with a light fabric medium finish to protect the surface, not under glass.
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City – A Series
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City – a series
I have several new pieces of textile art in the series I called City, just going to the framers Craft Works, Gloucester Road, Bristol. These are mixed textiles, embellished, embroidered and stitched. These works are in box frames that are deeper and darker that shown here.
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Witches Hat
This is an attempt to illustrate a song by the Incredible String Band,
it could do with a bit more work.
From Genius Lyrics
[Verse]
Certainly the children have seen them
In quiet places where the moss grows green
Coloured shells jangle together
The wind is cold, the year is old
The trees whisper together
And bend in the wind, they lean
[Refrain]
La la la la la, la la la, la la la la la
La la la la la, la la la, la la la la la
La la la la la, la la la, la la la la la
La la la la la, la la la, la la la la la
Next week, a monkey is coming to stay
[Chorus]
If I was a witches’ hat
Sitting on her head like a paraffin stove
I’d fly away and be a bat
Across the air, I would rove
Stepping like a tightrope walker
Putting one foot after another
Wearing black cherries for rings
It’s one of several I have tried including the linoprint Painting Box
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Peoples Art Fair, Bristol
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City – a series of textile art
Several of this series have gone to new homes. I am working on several more, some larger.
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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
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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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