The Blues On A Sunny Day

Just a few more days left of my residency in the Waun Wen area of the city and Dan McCabe from Swansea’s Glynn Vivian Art Gallery came up and did a fab session about indigo dyeing with some local residents. It’s the topic of one of their latest exhibitions. The weather’s been awful recently, threeContinue reading “The Blues On A Sunny Day”

Heads ….

Here’s a couple more sketches from out night out at Swansea’s Sin City to see “As December Falls”, looking at heads close up. Good bit of practice. A Chance To Own One Of My Artworks. I have some small screenprints for sale, inspired by my drawings of the antique taxidermy collection at Swansea Museum. I haveContinue reading “Heads ….”

Venus In Sin City.

Gigging and Scribbling. Husb and I went to Sin City, our local gig venue the other night, to see a band new to the both of us, “As December Falls” and supports. It was a cracking night out. I had to have a scribble of course. Neolithic Venuses. I did some quick continuous line drawingsContinue reading “Venus In Sin City.”

With Splodges!

Here’s the other quick painting I did when I dropped into University of Wales Trinity Saint Davids (AKA Swansea Art College) yesterday to try my hand at hard edge acrylic painting, using ripped masking tape, spray paint, bubble wrap and a pipette onto paper. I prefer it to the other one, there’s more going on.Continue reading “With Splodges!”

An Open Mind.

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.”

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.”

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.”