The paper is Awagami Kozo, the pens are fine mapping pens, and the shadowy shapes are monoprints taken by rolling a small inked roller over bits of plants in oil-based relief printing ink.
Next week I get training in woodwork skills ... exciting!
|
Every spare minute sandwiched between my training course and home life just now is being spent on drawings for the Christmas exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh, as the handing-in deadline approaches fast. Titles for the works are beginning to come to mind as the drawings progress. This one is definitely about volcanoes and primordial life forming in plumes of red and ash grey vapours. The paper is Awagami Kozo, the pens are fine mapping pens, and the shadowy shapes are monoprints taken by rolling a small inked roller over bits of plants in oil-based relief printing ink. The training course, by the way, is brilliant! This week I have been working in a sewing cabin learning how to thread and drive industrial sewing machines to overlock, trim, embroider and construct cushions and seat covers. Basic skills, but I'm hooked. I never realised how physical sewing is - always seemingly associated with a gentle female pastime, I have found in fact I need leg muscles of steel and a lot of stamina to control those machines and get through the daily work-load. Night cramps in muscle groups unaccustomed to such work were painful. Respect to all those machinists who churn out our Primark garments.
Next week I get training in woodwork skills ... exciting! Comments are closed.
|
Welcome to my work journal - a weekly update on drawings, work in progress, doodles and day-dreaming.
I changed the website address a few months ago, so some older links on previous posts are broken. If you click one of those and it takes you to a strange page, simply replace the .co.uk after the heatherelizawalker. with weebly.com and it will work again. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
As well as the work you see here, I illustrate under the name of Binky McKee (my mother's maiden name was McKee, Binky was every single one of my great grandmother's many cats!)
If you would like to visit my Binky website, please click the picture above. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Dissolving PeopleA symbol on the footpath outside a local primary school gradually disappearing as the image breaks up and wears away until eventually it is obliterated by leaves and barely discernible. Photographed at intervals of several months between February 2021 and November 2022, oldest at the top.
(My shoes look so new in the first pic, and note the transition to new phone in the last photo). <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
All
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
April 2024
(Sorry the archives don't nest!)
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
A 2013 work book, still very much in use Please note all images on this website are ©Heather Eliza Walker 2013 - 2020, and may not be used or reproduced without prior consent. |