This morning I was helping to set up my new exhibition at The Brunswick in Swansea. I’m showing with members of an arts collective I’m in, 15 Hundred Lives, and we’ve put together a show of painting, photomontage and drawing / printmaking. I’ve done something new for this exhibition. For years, I’ve been wandering the streets with my sketchbooks, a set of drawing pens and a digital camera, recording what I see in front of me. This combines my digital images with my sketchbook drawings. I made solvent transfer prints of the digital work onto top quality art paper and then, using my sketchbook drawings as my source, I drew on top of the transmuted imagery, either with traditional dip pens or Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens.
The original drawing here was done while I was queuing at the Civic Centre. These two women sat opposite; I think they were related. The transfer print in the background was taken locally in Wind Street and then digitally manipulated before being used in the solvent transfer process. It’s a big change from the nudes that are normally my subject matter and the monotype and blockprinting processes I usually use in my work. It’s an interesting new direction for me.
I really love the direction your work is taking, Rosie. Nice job! Wish I lived closer (like the same country, for starters 😉 so I could come to a show.
Thank you. It’s a never ending process,being an artist.
That’s what I LOVE about it–and sometimes it’s like having a super power. 😉
hahaha that’s a good one 😀
A promising new direction
Thanks for reblogging the dancer 🙂
Love this, this is a really interesting technique.
Thanks, I’ll do more in the new year
You’re welcome, and cool 🙂 Hope you had a good holiday season and happy new year, too.
Very nice
Thank you. I have a large arse staring at me as I write this 😀
They don’t look anything like One Direction!
hahaha thank goodness for that!
Looks really good. I like the bulging perspective of the background, and how crisp the black lines are on top of the colors. 🙂
Thank you 🙂