A little bit of art, a little bit of Cricket
I also decided to try out the Hahnemuhle paper for relief printing. As mentioned before, it is a soft paper with a fair amount of texture. This is an image taken from a magazine.…
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Journal · page 35
More notes, discoveries and moments from the journal.
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Warning
Never linocut when tired or under the influence of a glass of wine because mistakes will be made and tears will be shed. So, I decided to do some little paintings. Riscy’s foot…
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Ink Drawing - Branches
I am dead tired, but wanted to share today’s creative endeavour with you. I love looking at stylised vegetation in rug design etc, and I’ve been meaning to do some of my own for…
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Paper Paper Everywhere
As indicated above, the PAPER has arrived. As expected, there is HEAPS of it. As feared, the Dutch Etching Paper is not as smooth as I need to pick the detail on my monoprinting…
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Injury, triumph and a little bit of creativity
In an effort to bring more colour to ClaArProMo I cracked open the watercolour for the first time in ages 🙂 And I think this brings me a third of the way there We won our second…
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I'm way behind
I don’t like the above piece, it was good to practice some techniques out, but it is about nothing, of nothing and doesn’t work for me at all. But, since I’m 7 pieces behind my…
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More Monoprint
My sister and I have an informal postcard swap happening and I owe her one: I woke up this morning with a very sore neck and shoulder. I lasted half a day at work before I called…
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Monoprinting Rocks!!!
I knocked off work at 3pm yesterday so I could get my entry form in for the Traralgon Agricultural Show. I’m entering the Homespun section, my Kiri shawl and a skein of wool (yet…
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ClaArProMo Exhibit # 4
Yes people, I reckon Nick Cave (and the bad seeds)albums are perfect in every way . If you see it, snap up his double album Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus. When I was at…
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Charcoal Delight
I’m loving this challenge I have set for myself. I couldn’t spend as much time on it as I would have liked tonight. We had our first game of touch footy for the season… first…
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Collage
ClaArProMo No 2 😛 A few years ago Riscy bought me a subscription to National Geographic. It had been my total favourite magazine when I was a teenager, our school had hundreds of…
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ClaArProMo
My plans for a weekend of printmaking have all but halted. I spoke to the ‘person in question’ on Friday, and she is not keen for me to use the workshop for various reasons, I…
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