I dropped in to University of Wales Trinity Saint Davids, or as I still call it, Swansea Art College, this afternoon for a practice session doing hard edge acrylic painting. I haven’t done anything like this before, it was fun. I used ripped masking tape and spray paint onto canvas. I’ve never used spray paintContinue reading “An Open Mind.”
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Four So Far.
Wait And See. Four of my screenprints of Waun Wen manholes have two colours printed so far. There’s one more with just one colour, so the second colour will be screened later this week. And then they’ll all have some text overprinted but you’ll have to wait and see ….. Part of the Home and HinterlandContinue reading “Four So Far.”
First Timer Squeegee Technique!
I was at Waun Wen Community Centre again today, carrying on with the screenprints based on manhole covers (from photos by Melvyn Williams), don’t they look a bit like celestial bodies? I was helped by some local residents who dropped by and decided to try out some screenprinting. In fact, they printed them all! IContinue reading “First Timer Squeegee Technique!”
Cariad Cake.
Chocolate Art This was my arty creation today. A rich chocolate sponge with chocolate buttercream topping, decorated with bought chocolate hearts. For my Cariad. We’ve been together 35 years. That’s a lot of cakes. A Chance To Own One Of My Artworks I have some small screenprints for sale, inspired by my drawings of theContinue reading “Cariad Cake.”
Colour Overlap.
A quiet but productive afternoon in Waun Wen community centre today, continuing with my screenprint series based on images of local manhole covers from original photographs by Melvyn Williams. I mixed Daler Rowney System 3 acrylic paint, Process Magenta, into screenprint medium and overprinted the Process Blue images I did a few days ago. WhereContinue reading “Colour Overlap.”
Unboxing Excitement!
Sciency Stuff! I’m so excited! I’ve just unboxed my new pendant from Swansea-based artist / designer / jeweller Thomas Newton. I love his work – it starts as this sort of computery concept and somehow he magics it into existence with sciency stuff. There, that explained it well. You can find his work on FacebookContinue reading “Unboxing Excitement!”
The First Print.
Manhole Covers In Blue Here’s the very first screenprint of my series of manhole covers of Waun Wen. I started with an original photo by Melvyn Williams, digitally altered it in Adobe Photoshop, printed it onto a sheet of acetate with an inkjet printer, and used that as a negative to create a photoscreen. ThenContinue reading “The First Print.”
Screwing Down The Hinge Clamps.
Getting Prepared I’m working on a community arts project in the Waun Wen area of the city for the next few weeks and I’m going to be doing some screenprinting demonstrations. I bought some new kits for the project with screens, squeegees and screen hinge clamps so they can be used on portable bases. IContinue reading “Screwing Down The Hinge Clamps.”
Manholes And Parcel Tape
Sealing The Edges I had a contented afternoon at Waun Wen Community Centre today, preparing my photoscreens by fixing parcel tape around the interior edges to seal the space between the edge of the photo-solution and the frame of the screen. This has to be done before printing otherwise the ink will seep though ontoContinue reading “Manholes And Parcel Tape”
Old Lace And Rice
Here’s another porcelain cup being made yesterday at Esther Ley’s pottery session in Waun Wen and Brynmelyn Community Centre. This participant has pressed antique lace into the top edge of the teacup and then pressed grains of rice into the rest. These will burn out in the kiln when the cup is fired and theContinue reading “Old Lace And Rice”
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