Tag: mixed media
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Charcoal and Texture
I don’t know why I don’t use charcoal more often, because I love using it. It’s especially yummy on my yummy textured piece. I’m using a selfie that I have used before as a reference for this one, and I am leaving it here for the day so I can walk in first thing and…
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A Plan Comes Together-ish
There was a lot of pottering about with various things today, and the most photogenic is this one. I have nailed the printing and transparency aspect of this idea, and now I have to get the fiddly, very thin, very wet, very much wanting to cling to itself thing to land where I want it…
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Planting Ideas and Things
I had an unplanned stint in the garden today because a pot luck box of Sedum cuttings arrived a day early. I’m not complaining. The box was stuffed with way more plants than I was expecting, and I’m not complaining about that either. Some of them are so tiny, but they are easy to get…
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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…
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Inkjet Image Transfer Concertina
I’m back in the studio today, but yesterday definitely filled the well, and there are lots of ideas, and I’m making notes of them, because I’m incredibly talented at generating ideas and forgetting them within a day. I’m still playing with image transfer ideas and techniques, specifically inkjet print image transfers. The portrait prints I…
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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…
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Collage Fodder and a Tap
Today was a disrupted day because we had a plumber coming to fit and outside tap. I am chuffed to bits that we now have an outside tap, especially given the forecast is for a long, dry summer. I am not chuffed about the climate change part of that, but the easier job of watering…
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Ongoing Experiment
I thought I had solved the bleeding ink conundrum, but it was not the ink setting on the printer that caused the bleed. I had fun doing this, even though it’s technically a failure. It’s not a failure, I don’t look at art experiments that way. I have two theories. The first is that maybe…
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Transparency Discrepancy
Today’s timed sketch was done using only the Blackwing 602 pencil and my shammy cloth. I think I prefer mixing the types of graphite. Now onto the main event – experimenting with the transparencies. Yesterday I printed my drawing onto tissue paper, and it was very fragile, but gave a promising result, even on a…
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Sketch and Image Transfer
This was a fun sketch from a lovely reference. I used one of my new Blackwing 602 pencils, which I am developing a crush on, and my chunky Pitt Graphite Crayon, and a tortillon for blending. Later on I was musing about things, in particular revisiting thoughts about using my own photographs either as gel…
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Art Journal Progress
I have this A5 journal that I have been playing with for months. The project started with sessions of random mark-making, stencilling, stamping, scribbling, and whatever came to hand, until every page was no longer blank. In the meantime I have also used up excess paint, written in phrases, and occasionally worked a spread to…
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year! I started early with the first art of the year, not least because some bam was letting off fireworks nearby, despite it being horrific weather with 40-50mph wind gusts. Since I wasn’t settling to sleep, I got up and made some art. The paper is 12×16″ 140lb hot press, and I used…
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