Tag: experiments

  • Texture Choices

    Texture Choices

    There was a lot of playing and testing and whatnot went on today, but it’s not exactly coherent or photogenic, so here’s a snippet of the canvas board I was testing ideas on next to the hare I painted yesterday. It was a productive day, even if it doesn’t look like it, and decisions have…

  • Making a Transparency Using an Inkjet Print (cont.)

    Making a Transparency Using an Inkjet Print (cont.)

    I was thinking I had probably exhausted the options for this deep-dive, other than honing my skills with the application process, and I was thinking I was satisfied with my discoveries. Then I had an idea. I wasn’t even thinking about art, or this process, or anything at all to do with art, I was…

  • Image Transfer Transparencies Winners and Losers

    Image Transfer Transparencies Winners and Losers

    I have been testing an inkjet image of this drawing which was printed on copy paper the same day I made prints using all the different papers. The test is simply spraying a small section of the print with water, and seeing what happens. The first test was the day the print was made, and…

  • Hung Out To Dry

    Hung Out To Dry

    I pulled out every transparent, or potentially transparent, paper I could think of, and put them through the printer. They are all quite thin, so needed to be attached to a carrier paper, so there was some fiddling, and trimming going on. I’ve printed the same image with the same printer settings on all eight…