I have been working on this collagraph print for the past week or two, learning the process as much as anything. CATO Press in east Bristol can handle quite large print plates, this one is about 55cm in diameter and is available to buy. I think the real thing looks a bit better than this …
Ready to print my first large collagraph at Cato Press, if my paper ever arrives from Lawrence Art Supplies (Brighton). Not their fault, just the delivery firm. The only place to buy a good range of print paper in Bristol is Bower Ashton art college (University of the West of England) but they are shut …
Having joined Cato Press, Bristol in April I have begun experimenting collagraph printmaking, both intaglio and relief. I began with an ambitious piece, a 50cm circle with a variety of shaped and textures, and a number of smaller studies for this piece. I wanted use text but cutting this by hand is tedious so I …
Just back from Cato Press where I was proofing a new collagraph. Not entirely successful so brought the plate back for some more work. Some of the lettering was insufficiently stuck down, moved around on the image.
It looks like this is a day for joining things. I just signed up to Campfire Convention which is a social networking site and a club, and in a little while I’m visiting Cato Press here in Bristol, for an induction. All good I think, and the sun is shining!
I just got the latest upgrade/bug fix for Affinity Publisher beta – still free. I haven’t found any bugs and I am enjoying using it. It has excellent file export choices including .pdf. I found colour printout to be very good as well; although the colours of my Xerox laser can be a little over-saturated …
A visit to a terrific, free and very popular exhibition – closing soon – at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, the first of three looking at woodblock printing in Japan. This one is concerned with landscapes, the next on starts on January 12th and is focused on the city. There is also an on-line exhibition …
Printing documents that are larger than A4 can be a pain. I find Windows to be way behind the mac in this respect, and most of the cheaper apps don’t have printer dialogue boxes that can handle this. So third party apps would seem to be the way, but are there any? I tried Wrapcandy …
The endless waffle and panic about Brexit often seems to hide the on-going horrors of Fortress Europe. The U.N refugee agency, UNHCR says that, “..an unprecedented 65.6 million people (worldwide) were uprooted from their homes by conflict and persecution at the end of 2016,” and that “the rate at which solutions are being found for …
