Experiments with cyanotype prints – chasing the blues away. Working with what we got.
Category Archives: Studio techniques
Memory and learning
A further post on my experiences with print making, using an image theme of a wasp, across different techniques and processes when I wasn’t distracted by the Robodebt RC.
CYANOTYPES EXPOSURE TESTS
A rough and ready exploration of exposure timing, negative densities and UV exposure units…
More notes to myself on printing
The world of printing press, ink and chemistry provides opportunities to avoid settling down alone with my mind’s eye, staring at a blank sheet. The discipline required, by the various processes, rein in my impatience and at the same time keep me curious in the chance of happy accidents.
Notes on art and value.
Exploring approaches to publication of graphic work including the vexed question of digital drawings. Header photo shows layered printed images within a box frame using Japanese paper and acetate sheet. c. 2019
TOOLS
Sometimes you just have to make do with what you have at hand.
My canvas is a big iPad
I am using my canvas as giant iPad screen. This is no surprise, after spending a decade of cutting and pasting images under the glass screen of my iPad.
Reworking with liquid light
Reworking pencil drawings using an iPad. Finger drawing on the iPad or iPhone or using studio drawings opens up creative explorations of ideas and aesthetics.
Playing with self portrait
A word doodle on self portraits.
IG
Further thoughts on social media and art. A kind of thinking aloud serial post.