I’m working in a new country in a new print workshop in Rawalpindi, with new materials and equipment and it takes a bit of getting used to. We’re all doing full-colour reduction monotypes (for details of the process, click here )for a couple of days and I went to my supplier in London just beforeContinue reading “For Printmaking Geeks”
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The Finished Article
This is the finished monotype and ghost that I was working on yesterday at the Zaira Zaka print residency in Rawalpindi. The original image started as a digital photograph that I played about with in Photoshop. I’ll post all the technical details tomorrow for the printmaking geeks. We visited the ancient monuments at Taxila andContinue reading “The Finished Article”
Nail Biting
Worked at the Pindi Printshop until 4 am and now back at it. We’re working on full colour reduction monotypes which take ages. The process involves printing 3 plates on top of each other, the first in yellow, red for the second and finally the third in blue. I’ve just taken the second, red onContinue reading “Nail Biting”
Teeny Tiny Tryouts
Spent the entire day in the print studio here in Rawalpindi, doing some test intaglio prints with Intaglio Printmakers paper drypoint card. I haven’t used it for quite a while and I needed some practice. I worked on some tiny scraps of the card with different sharp tools, incising lines, cross hatching tones and rippingContinue reading “Teeny Tiny Tryouts”
Companions
I’m back from the artist residency in Boise, Idaho after a 28 hour journey. OOOOFFFF! I scribbled some of my travelling companions on my way there and back. This is a very nice, very elderly Indian lady who sat next to me on the plane from Heathrow to San Francisco. She slept for a lotContinue reading “Companions”
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