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| screen print onto hand dyed fabric |
After a summer out
of the studio, having fun as well as seeing lots of fantastic artwork, I’m
struggling to settle back into making.
There are so many things I want to make, but I just don’t seem to be
getting started right away. I thought I
knew exactly what I was going to do, but I’ve discovered out I didn’t! What had seemed the key things during the
holidays have turned out to be less fully fleshed out ideas than I had thought.
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| Hanging out to dry |
Rather than panic –
I have some exciting deadlines which I’ll tell you about later – I have decided
to take things easy and just paint and print and see where that leads to. So here are some of the things I’ve been ‘playing’
at this week. I don't know where any of them will lead, but maybe the panic will start subsiding in a week or two...
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| Reverse of the breakdown printing |
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| Painting with thickened dyes |
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| Mono-print from bubblewrap |
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| Printing with bubble wrap |
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| Painting with Inktense pencils |
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| Print plate ready to make mono-print |
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| Lightly dyed fabric, with circles stamped on top |
3 comments:
Ah, I know this feeling so well! You have this brilliant idea, but getting it down on paper and into fabric - hmmmm. Looks like you are having fun anyway, and having interesting deadlines soon concentrates the mind.....
You're right Sheila and then you start wondering whether you even had an idea at all! But the printing is fun and eventually it will lead somewhere... hopefully somewhere unexpected, which will make it all worthwhile
The good thing about playing is that you end up with lots of options at the end. I love the transparent layering in the first image.
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