The umbel image to the right of the image below is actually on Fabriano Rosaspina which I still use regularly, used in this instance as a bed to lay the plant pieces down before placing the print paper over them. I wanted to include the nice edges on the prints. I kept it after the run of work together with bits of leaf skeleton and seeds which got stuck to it in the process, gluing them permanently where I found them. I like its vaguely scruffy look, and it will no doubt become something in its own right soon.
The first steps in a new body of work were taken this week when I made 16 frottage prints of plant life as the 2008 work mentioned in last week's entry. Using an inked roller passed over a sheet of paper placed on top of various twigs and curly seed heads produced the same delicate, slightly fuzzy marks. The papers used here are from Awagami Factory in Japan, chosen from a selection pack I received in April from Jackson's Art. They are an absolute delight to use, I think I'm in love! Delicious edges. (Paper porn, sorry). In 2008 I inked up the actual plants to make prints because I was using a 285gsm Fabriano Rosaspina print paper for those, which is too thick for a successful frottage technique. It was a lot less messy to make rubbings this week, using the much lighter papers of 90gsm; and now I have used up my collection of garden oddities, they have gone from the table top and my work room is nice and tidy again.
The umbel image to the right of the image below is actually on Fabriano Rosaspina which I still use regularly, used in this instance as a bed to lay the plant pieces down before placing the print paper over them. I wanted to include the nice edges on the prints. I kept it after the run of work together with bits of leaf skeleton and seeds which got stuck to it in the process, gluing them permanently where I found them. I like its vaguely scruffy look, and it will no doubt become something in its own right soon. Comments are closed.
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Welcome to my work journal - a weekly update on drawings, work in progress, doodles and day-dreaming.
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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!)
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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.
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