I created these beetle pieces using the transfers I screen printed earlier in the month.
The colours are applied first and the writing is fired pencil.
The moths are transfers applied onto thin copper foil shapes
I am really enjoying the challenge of this new technique.
The moral is don't give up. Also go back to things and give them another go!
I am trying to make an image of moths flying towards a light source, I have made this collagraph plate from card and tile cement. The very dark is created with carborundom grit. I feel that I am almost there, but am so close to it now I can't see it properly any more. I have started a new plate.
I haven't had time to paint eggs this year , so it is a trip down memory lane.
Eggs painted and made with fabric by my children when they were small and little knitted things.
Thankyou Lesley for the nest which is now a central feature on my mantle piece.
Happy Easter everyone!
And have I been playing !! This is a zinc etching, inked using the viscosity method with cut out etched moths collaged onto it.
This little piece was an example I made for a zinc etching course. Left in the copper sulphate over night to create the bitten edges and holes, then again viscosity inked.
But these are my favourite experiments, I am really enjoying learning to enamel. These 4 labels are deeply bitten copper and screen printed transfers.
I hope Robyn will find that 2 -3 months of experimental play will be enough...I think I will need 2-3 years.
a few small sample collagraph plates. These tile cement and carborundum pieces are about 2 ins x 4 ins, sorry about the imperial measurements!
I have inked them up using simultaneous colour inking (or viscosity ) ...one trip through the press, I know hard to believe. I have added a little gold chine collee here and there, I love a bit of twinkle.
Looking at them now I think it might be worth trying to repeat these compositions in enamel.
That will while away a few hours when I should be writing essays!!
I could not have hung the work without the fantastic help of Rob and Caroline, we had a lovely morning, they both kept me calm and made sure that everything was level.
We are all still friends and not a cross word was spoken.
The gallery at the Museum is light and spacious,
but makes the ostriches look small, it is thrilling to see these pieces hanging together.
Sunday afternoon gave me an opportunity to meet people and explain how collagraphs are made, two hours of non stop talking.
I am very grateful to The Museum in the Park for giving me this opportunity to show so much of my work in this lovely space.
