Some Cyanotype Tests - Stag, Deer, Plants, Snake & Catfish Mermaids.

Drawing a Day 130 - Strange Hairy Water Buffalo Creature

Drawing a Day 129 - City Pigeon in Felt Tips.

Drawing a 127 - Hog in the Woods

Drawing a Day 124 - Fox For Cyanotype Test

 

Drawing a Day 111 - Scrubby Watercolours of Rambling Wood & Beach Finds.

Drawing a Day 82 - Giraffe Line Drawing

Drawing a Day 27 - How I Live Now, Surrounded by Paint Mountains.

Drawing a day 18 - Quick Snap Lion due to Unfinished Crabs.

Quick snap lion after drawing complicated crabbing pic - no time to finish crabs - have to put on a dress and wash the ink off my hands. Likelyhood of finding heels in my cupboard - LOW.

Drawing a Day 2b - Shrimp Mermaid

Shrimp Mermaids Doodle

Job Done. - Cat & Goldfish

This print has been floating around my head and idea sketch book for awhile now. Seemed like a good time to draw it up and free up some head space for new ideas. Got half way through the design process and went to see Wolf of Wall Street, which went on for hours! Got back at midnight and worked til 2:30am, finished it in the morning. Into the studio at 2pm, print finished and out by 10:30pm.
 

 Layer 1 - two shades of orange at once.

 Layer two - Pink nose and tongue and the white bodies of the fish

 Fish detail

 Keep it simple stupid - testing out a two layer option (possibly for greetings cards) with aectate and the base layer. Another three layers to go

 Layer three - orange fur.

 Layer 4 - Tabby markings.

Final print. Layer 5 - Black outlines.

Midnight foxes.

Came home after day of printing final Wee Bird colours with a head full of foxes, specifically a cluster of foxes. Whipped up the fastest dinner that I know how to cook that doesn't come out of a plastic container and got busy with a pencil.

At this point I realised I was too tired to produce any more foxes and these too looked a bit awkward together. I decided to bin the slightly more boring one and stuck it in the spare fox box.   

Started playing around with halftone for the first time.

2:30am - At this point I stopped and crawled into bed, about to turn the light off I realised lines were upside down and fox needs gradient.

Woke up late, tried fox with blue and then black and blue .

and then decided to stick with black.

Final composition - 3 layers with 1 colour blend.

Printing green and brown Wee Bird colourways

Went down to Rye for my Mum's birthday weekend. Had a lot of fun stomping around on chilly beaches picking up lots of Flotsam and Jetsam. Gave myself a rash picking up one particularly funky piece next to the nuclear power station. Will update with few pics once I can get my photo's back. Had to borrow a camera after my phone came to a creaking data halt complaining about having to store my 5,200 photos.

Back to Studio on Monday. Screens had been put away for me which was super helpful, but had unfortunately been paint bombed at some point during the weekend with massive gold splodges all over one of them. That's one way to remember to never leave your screen out. Wasted 2 hours blasting the gold off and re exposing only to find couple of long scratches across the mesh too. Don't know what had happened while I was away but my screen has been through the wars. Real bugger as it was my nice new screen that got hit not my pigeon shadowing one.

Green Wee bird body down. Got a bit carried away with the green and didn't leave many sheets for Brown Wee bird - bit of a shame as the brown came out better than I'd thought it would.

Black layer down, slightly fiddly registration but all came good in the end.

Finito!

Introducing Wee Bird. He lives in a circle.

Tomorrow planning to print wee bird. He's pretty amazing. In the interest of 'freeing the line' I have given him one massive franken foot.

Going to cut down my long off cut strips into squares and do some wee bird mini prints. Wondering if it's possible to print two colour ways next to each other at once - If you kept the pace up... something to find out about.

Few screen grabs from tonights desicision making below. And now I am going to bed before 2 in the morning. Genius. I'm ignoring the fact it's still 00:58am...