Midsummer’s Day and we have torrential rain! It’s humid and horrible but it was life drawing as usual this evening down at Swansea Print Workshop. I made an elderflower and lemon drizzle cake for tea break and set out to do something different with my drawings tonight. I did a short course in Renaissance style drawing a few weeks ago and I’ve done the first day of a phtotpolymer printmaking course this week. I’m hooked on the technique but the plates are quite expensive so I’ve decided to start working on A6. My usual full-colour monotypes are A1, so there’s a huge difference. I prepared some handmade paper [bought from the Tate Gallery – it’s gorgeous and wasn’t too expensive] with sepia wash, ripped it into A6 pieces and worked on them with a dip pen and Indian ink, brushes and washes and did the highlights with a fragment of white conte crayon. I did the four drawings in an hour and a half and I think I have enough to work with and adapt for a couple of little photopolymer plates next week. Watch this space………
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Love these! I want to try that cake lol
I made an apple and lemon drizzle cake for life drawing this evening 😀
There is no cake at mine I went yesterday! I specialise in banana cake 😀
Mmmmm I make that when there are squidgy black bananas in the fruit bowl, with a chocolate peanut butter topping.
These are beautiful. And I love the rough edges on the paper 🙂
Thank you so much 🙂
Awesome post!!!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it 🙂
“an elderflower and lemon drizzle cake for tea break…” What? We’re lucky to get ginger biscuits! Looking forward to the solar plate versions.
hehehe – my hobby is making cakes.
These are fantastic. Good work!
Thank you Nancy 🙂
These are fabulous. I love the top right hand corner image.
I’ll be developing some of them into photopolymer etchings
Love them 🙂
Thank you 🙂