The storm is over

I’ve finally done with ‘storm in a teacup’.

Colour separation monoprint (a different, better palette but I’m still not happy with it) and collagraph overprinting. Oops I misregistered the collagraph on this one

 And as a ghost, with better registration. 

 And as a watercolour wash with the collagraph print.

I’m still getting halos round some of the stepped areas of the block and I’m not sure whether it’s due to press pressure or too thin paper. When I can go back to Hot Bed I’ll experiment with the heavier press I that usually use for collagraph

Still raining

I decided that I wanted to try a coloured collagraph version of 'Storm in a teacup'.

The first step is the collagraph plate. I made it quite light on texture because I want the colour to show through.

I've printed several to use with washes of watercolour.

 I'm also going to print some colour separation monoprints and then print the collagraph on top. But that will need a decent amount of time setting aside and while the weather holds there's lots of allotmenting that needs doing.

And in between I've been making some small monoprints on fabric to go in ''An inch a day'.

More storms

I've been working on the image using reduction monoprint.

 In a mix of raw umber and ultramarine.

 And a three colour separation reduction using deep red, deep yellow and ultramarine.

And a ghost print.

I'm not happy with the colour palette but do I want to try overlaying a trace monoprint to add line to the colour prints when they've dried, just to see if it will work.

Storms inside and out

The weather’s been awful so not much chance of digging or walking but I’ve had a busy few days in the studio. (I really do need to consider doing some cleaning and other grown up things)

Thanks to Marilyn 'An inch a day', the NWBA joint project, has regained momentum. My contribution this week has been to send out fabric at the right size and to collate on the timeline where these pieces will go. The idea being to track what we are all producing so hopefully this means that when we can meet and put it all together there won’t be gaps, or worse, no space at the right point to fit things in. I’m up to date with this now so I can start making more images.

The Art Society theme for February is ‘Elements’. After a bit of playing and several loose ends, some of which I’ll keep for later, I decided on ‘Storm in a teacup’.

My puppets are coming out to play again (well at least one of them).

I think I'm going to try some monoprinting.