This series of artist books were inspired by my mums property in Thornlands. Mums 91 years old and has looked after this 20 acre block of bushland for the last 25 years after dad died and has lived there for over 66 years now. It’s where I grew up and the whole family loves it…
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Printmaking 3- Week 3- Exercise 1- Lino print & Drypoint print
These two drypoint etchings were created using a dry point mark making tool similar to a think needle. I also indented using a hammer and nail, and used sanding paper; a sewing tracing tool and a small hand-held battery Dremel to mark the hard plastic sheet I was using. Christmas Creek in Beaudesert holds wonderful…
Printmaking 2- Week 2 Exercise 1 – Screen printing
Experimenting with screen printing, I found this technique initially very fraught with problems, I made so many really bad prints but when I worked out the paint consistency and the paper quality and the right masking tape to use plus how to register the paper- the process flowed better….
Painting 2 Painting scale, still-life 1-5 & viewfinder
Painting from observation- This exercise involved using painting to observe objects in space. For the view finder exercise I chose to complete this series of 6 scenes using the approach of painting in the shapes that are formed using a variety of different approaches….
Painting 6 Inverting an image
This exercise took a single image which was inverted five times, each inversion was traced to produce an image of multiple shapes possibilities. I only did this exercise one time and the results are shown in this image. I think this could be improved in many ways, such as a different outline placement and of…
Painting 3- Portraiture experimental compositions
I did the exercises using Black/Grey/White/Single Colour Under Painting and then just kept experimenting with portraiture because I just got on a roll and enjoyed the way a painting freed up when I wasn’t tracing the image. Even the dogs weren’t safe……I played with watercolours to do them, just because I thought that it would…
