Today I planned a new print

Pleased to report that I have acted on my resolution to get down to some work and am now at the transfer to block stage. I drank rose and vanilla tea while I drew so this all has to work out!

My print, True, Good and Beautiful (below) is a finalist in a local artshow on the North Coast of Australia, Ballina a small town near Byron Bay. Very happy to be part of it because it is for a very good cause. Also nice to exhibit something again, have been pretty quiet but now have a month off paid work so shall do some artwork. Currently obsessed with Magnolias but there was a wonderful exhibition of orchids locally....just so beautiful. Shall post some images after I get started with the print, currently there is just a lot of things percolating around my head and some time to do something with the thoughts!!!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Artfelt-Art-Prize-Exhibition-2011/187536207957362?sk=wall

True, Good and Beautiful, final version of this print

Finally got round to finishing this one off, hideous to print as it turns out, had a nasty day wasting good paper!

Trading Card Project

I have (so I thought, what with the divorce, new job and sorting out a new life)been way to busy to print and do art but something came over me and I put my hand up to be involved in a project where 54 artists create a 58 prints to create a pack of cards. It is called the trading card project (and details can be found on Barret Galleries Alstonville web page) So the prints are really tiny 6.4 x 8.9, the size of a card. Anyhow I went off to Scott's press (we have a great relationship, me and that press) and whipped off 65 prints in a few hours!!!! done done done, how easy was that! The moral of this story is just do it! because sometimes putting off printing takes more time than doing it!

Sewn prints

I was thinking of this print which I printed again yesterday, see post below for the basic imaga, which has led me to plan another sewn print utilising other prints (death of the angel of mercy and storm at sea) whch I also printed yesterday....shall post a final image in a few days...maybe

More printing pleasure!

I was astonished today to have more printing success with Scott Trevelyan's press at his very pleasant studio. I love his artequip press and am very grateful to have found a press that seems to like me. I set it and printed, very few booboos and these mainly related to spots in the ink (so annoying when you have to clean up just to get rid of them) and other acts of general carelessness unrelated to the press!

This print is called Secret Cull, when I first cut it I printed it on delicate paper in black, then 'ghost' prints and sewed it together with cotton thread. I never editioned it. I have a photo of the big print but it is very hard to photograph.

Shall try to post it next...

Scott's studio is for hire and I will post some photos of it after next printing session.

found a press

I printed today using a very nice press in a wonderful studio overlooking a beautiful northern rivers rural scene. As I contemplated the friendly press that was being very agreeable to me...and ate my vegemite sandwich, I felt like I was in heaven!

I am very fortunate to be able to print at this studio, which is really idylic and it makes me think I will never buy a press because if I did I would be printing in a garage and that cannot be so good for ones soul!

Surely some good work must follow, this print is a reworking of one already editioned, I used it to get used to the press because it is not so big and I could use less paper up as I worked into the mysteries of the new press, which as I said turned out to be very kind to me!