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.”
Category Archives: Printmaking
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”
Coating And Exposing
Geeking Out I spent a happy morning geeking out at at Swansea Print Workshop, coating my new silkscreens with photosensitive solution and exposing and developing images from the acetates I prepared recently. It’s Complicated! As they’re new screens, I started by de-greasing and drying them. Then I coated the surfaces with Azocol photoscreen fluid andContinue reading “Coating And Exposing”
Trying Things Out: 2
I’m developing some collage kits for the arts project I’m working on in the Waun Wen area of the city. I’ve been doing a lot of kit making over the past couple of years, since the pandemic lockdown began, because it’s been difficult to bring people together to do arty stuff, and I really likeContinue reading “Trying Things Out: 2”
Prepping
There comes a point where you have to stop doing source material – drawings and photos and so on- and start choosing and preparing your source images for developing into artworks. I’m planning on doing some silk screen prints from some of the images gathered through the past three months or so in the WaunContinue reading “Prepping”
Buried Water
I’ve been walking through the Waun Wen area of the city this afternoon, sketching and also taking rubbings in graphite onto paper of the “street metal”. It sounds like a type of heavy rock music, but it’s the metal bits that we generally don’t notice under our feet. Things like manhole, stopcock and drain coversContinue reading “Buried Water”
Not All Bish Bash Bosh
There are some odd ideas out there about what it is that artists do, how we make a work of art. Many seem to think that we get the materials together and Bish Bash Bosh, there it is on the canvas, or the plinth, or hot off the printing press. But the reality is lotsContinue reading “Not All Bish Bash Bosh”
Just Carving
Today I was cutting lino blocks. That’s all, nothing exciting. Just carving into lino blocks. A Chance To Own One Of My Artworks I have some small screenprints for sale, inspired by my drawings of the taxidermy collection at Swansea Museum. I have given these antique artifacts a modern twist by combining them with imagesContinue reading “Just Carving”
The Hands!!!
This is the 30 minute pose from last week’s life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop. Because of Covid19 restrictions, we have designated spaces in the drawing studio so we stick to one spot, no moving around to get different vantage points. I was stationed to one side of our model but I didn’t mind thoughContinue reading “The Hands!!!”
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