tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55570024752487659142024-03-12T18:50:27.079-07:00Wendy Rhodes - ArtistExploring Drawing and PrintmakingWendy Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02092114325922550171noreply@blogger.comBlogger173125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557002475248765914.post-61506324903555937432017-01-15T05:43:00.000-08:002017-01-15T05:43:35.276-08:002016 - a busy autumn<br />
The autumn seemed to go by in a flash. there was so much to do and not a lot of breathing space.<br />
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'Near and Far' - a little solo show at Ruskin Mill, Nailsworth<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Shetland large scale drawings had an outing...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...keeping large scale work from the local area company</td></tr>
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RWA 164 Annual Open<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Turning for home' - (centre left)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'West Burra Coast' - A starting point for some Shetland inspired etchings</td></tr>
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The Masters - Etching<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was thrilled that 'Surface Layers' was chosen for this prestigious show</td></tr>
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Diversity in Print - Tewkesbury, Roses Theatre<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thank you to Phil Johnson and Jono Sandilands for curating ...</td></tr>
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Phew!Wendy Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02092114325922550171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557002475248765914.post-36134717706539990992016-08-27T12:11:00.001-07:002016-08-27T12:11:37.268-07:00Shetland Island residency - all at sea!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
A boat trip around the island of Bressay and on the spectacular cliffs and gannet colonies on Noss was a treat we saved until this week.</div>
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Drawing on a boat brings its own challenges, the boat is never still...<br />
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even when moored inside a cave...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a view from inside the Orkneyman's cave to the open sea beyond</td></tr>
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but the speed of drawing brings new life to sketches of dramatic rock structures.<br />
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It was wonderful to get so close to the wildlife, the gannets and bonxies put on a good show and the seals (encouraged by some generous fishermen) were entertaining.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charlie - the enormous fisherman's favourite</td></tr>
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More sketches on the Shetland Islands sketchbook page...Wendy Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02092114325922550171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557002475248765914.post-41473952633577638032016-08-23T09:11:00.003-07:002016-08-23T09:11:57.346-07:00 Shetland Islands - acclimatising<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
The Shetland Islands are providing all weather conditions</div>
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More sketches on the Shetland sketchbook page under the header at the top of this blogWendy Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02092114325922550171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557002475248765914.post-63854086865010211412016-08-13T09:51:00.003-07:002016-08-14T01:54:51.993-07:00Shetland residency - hitting the wall (in a good way!)There's been some mixed weather, but the sketchbook is filling up, despite the Shetland Islands variable weather.<br />
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This is early days, definitely 'work in progress' but good to be getting underway.<br />
Looking forward to some more of this stunning scenery and better weather over the next few days, here's a few more of my husbands lovely photos to inspire you...<br />
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Wendy Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02092114325922550171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557002475248765914.post-54112861524249498252016-08-11T02:53:00.000-07:002016-08-11T02:53:49.578-07:00Between the weathersIn Shetland we're always 'between weathers', looking from one horizon to another lets you know what's coming. We've had some stormy stuff over the last few days<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Booth overlooks Scalloway harbour</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Booth studio downstairs</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View to Tronda from Port Arthur, Scalloway</td></tr>
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There are more sketches on my Sketchbook page - The Shetland Islands 2016. Many more drawings to come!Wendy Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02092114325922550171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557002475248765914.post-33835228803423301492016-07-10T08:49:00.002-07:002016-07-10T08:49:58.829-07:00A level talent impresses at GPC<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My talented A level students from Katharine Lady Berkeley's School have been invited to show at the <a href="http://www.gpchq.co.uk/" target="_blank">Gloucestershire Printmaking Co-operative</a> studios in the Printmakers Gallery<br />
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Wendy Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02092114325922550171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557002475248765914.post-85962890806186845382016-05-02T08:13:00.000-07:002016-05-02T08:13:26.073-07:00Cornish sketching daysI've posted my favourite sketches from this year's Cornish break on the 'Sketchbook - Coast' page.<br />
I challenged myself to capture skies this year: the threatening skies at Polkerris provided ample inspiration.<br />
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There's always one which is drawn very quickly and which sums up the weather conditions or other prevailing conditions. This year's quick sketch was done at Watergate Bay in a high wind with the tide racing in!<br />
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I hope you enjoy this year's offerings.Wendy Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02092114325922550171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557002475248765914.post-65991293190001999112016-04-10T06:25:00.001-07:002016-04-10T06:25:31.212-07:00Cornish sketchingEaster holidays always gives me some good sketching time on the coast<br />
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It looks like beautiful weather<br />
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the cold winds didn't bother the dog<br />
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quite a bit of drawing got done. Happy days.<br />
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<br />Wendy Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02092114325922550171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557002475248765914.post-68638135107876058442016-03-29T08:56:00.002-07:002016-03-29T08:56:16.919-07:00Good Friday sketchingGood Friday was, as it turned out, extremely good this year. The sun and welcoming calmness of a still day made it feel like spring 'proper'.<br />
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The exhibition aims to show how drawing supports printmaking. Its been fascinating to see such diverse approaches to drawing - glimpses inside the artists thinking.</div>
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Wendy Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02092114325922550171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557002475248765914.post-59006736433328650702016-03-13T13:05:00.000-07:002016-03-14T00:08:41.481-07:00Printmaking TodayThis is something new that has shown me just what you can do when you put your mind to it... I'm delighted to have an article published in the printmakers magazine 'Printmaking Today'<br />
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The article links into my research work and is all about Jason Hicklin; a fabulous landscape artist whose passion is for etching.<br />
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I was able to visit Jason at his studio; it was a privilege to be able to discuss his working methods with him and to gain something of an insight into his practice.<br />
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Jason works entirely from sketches made on his walking trips to remote corners and outposts of the British Isles. These drawings ensure that his etchings have an immediacy which captures the atmosphere of each place he visits.<br />
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I am very grateful to both Jason Hicklin and to Printmaking Today for this fascinating and rewarding opportunity.<br />
<br />Wendy Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02092114325922550171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557002475248765914.post-72201848667484112442016-03-04T10:18:00.000-08:002016-03-04T10:18:40.838-08:00IMPRESSIVE INSIGHTInsight Printmakers at the cosy and welcoming <a href="http://wottongallery.com/" target="_blank">Wotton Gallery</a> this wekend until 22nd March.<br />
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We're having a launch event on Saturday 1 - 4pm, you'll be very welcome!<br />
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The gallery has been hung very beautifully by gallery staff Belinda and Cate, a huge thank you to them for their talented support.<br />
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... then I put it up in the studio, and I looked again and realised it wasn't really what I wanted.<br />
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I wanted the wall, centre left, to blend better into the background and the background to be darker, so back in the etching tank it went.<br />
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This looked better when the image is viewed as a whole. The focus is re-directed better onto the path.<br />
Then I needed to sort the gap in the textures in centre of the lane and the post which wasn't quite there.<br />
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After a final judicious use of aquatint the lane textures are linked together and the eye is drawn along the lane more effectively.<br />
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And now I think its finished... maybe...<br />
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I do wonder if I might still give this plate the chop - my favourite areas are the main lane leading backwards; in these areas everything has worked as I wanted. A Photoshop crop gives the general idea...<br />
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Sometimes less is more?Wendy Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02092114325922550171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557002475248765914.post-9337380819784919752016-02-14T06:58:00.000-08:002016-02-14T06:58:08.160-08:00A big print getting nearing to completionFollowing the progress of this print which took a long time to get anywhere near resolved...<br />
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The bite at this stage was quite light (not quite so rewarding! but that's printmaking...) and revealed that some of the underlying textures were too strong. A bit of strong scraping/burnishing helped to put the balance right.<br />
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To begin with I couldn't resist making large scale drawings of the place I wanted to represent<br />
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Then having photocopied the two drawings I pasted the together to create a plan<br />
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...reversed so my head doesn't get too messed up while I'm making the plate.<br />
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I then threw caution to the wind and sloshed sugar lift onto the plate to give me a starting point<br />
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The next stages will involve careful stopping out, but I may also have to burnish down some of the marks which have gone in a bit deeper than I hoped.Wendy Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02092114325922550171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557002475248765914.post-47245065932568181692016-02-07T06:41:00.001-08:002016-02-07T06:41:52.404-08:00All of a twitterI've got a lot of exciting printmaking things hapening over the next month or two - so with a small flutter of trepidation I decided to explore a little further along the social media road.<br />
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You can now find me <a href="https://twitter.com/wendyrhodesart" target="_blank">@wendyrhodesart</a> on twitter.<br />
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I may not always post as fully on the blogspot, but I will keep you up to date and show work regularly.<br />
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Thank you for following me so far, many of you have been very patient and loyal. I hope you'll also be able to join my tweets.<br />
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<br />Wendy Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02092114325922550171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557002475248765914.post-48144914384695810492016-01-01T08:55:00.001-08:002016-01-01T08:55:22.593-08:002016 new year, new ideasNew Year resolutions are not really my thing, but it is a good time for a new look at familiar ideas. There haven't been many sunny moments over the last couple of weeks but I was able to make the most of one glorious morning -<br />
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I wonder which of these starting points will prompt more sketching, drawing and etching...?Wendy Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02092114325922550171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557002475248765914.post-1489993127203139052015-12-06T06:36:00.002-08:002015-12-06T06:50:17.655-08:0020:20 Box of delights 2015Its a wonderful thing to receive a box of prints from fellow printmakers across the country. This year's 20:20 print exchange event hosted by Hot Bed Press in Manchester has brought me a lovely selection of techniques and approaches.<br />
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I love the etching 'Estuary' by Lynne Thirkell and Kate Thornton's circular screenprint. </div>
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Thank you also to June McHenry for the terracotta seaside, Alison Craig for the jade 'Dyfi Pools and Jade Emma Ellis for 'Population 139,403' the potopolymer intaglio.</div>
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Thank you to Hot Bed Press for hosting, Looking forward to next year.<br />
Follow this link <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/hot_bed_press">https://www.flickr.com/photos/hot_bed_press</a> to see 20:20 prints from all over the UK</div>
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One quite well organised (for me) day later and I had the edition printed. Pre-soaking paper makes the world of difference on editioning days.<br />
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Multiple happiness - all 25 prints plus a few to ensure consistency<br />
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Signed, numbered and ready to be packed off to the lovely people at Hot Bed Press in Salford<br />
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The final print - The title had always been there, not a tug between the telegraph poles, nor a remembrance of a war zone. Not even a farmers battle with current economic pressures - although all these interpretations are quite satisfying - but, more prosaically, I was talking to my brother on the phone while I did the original sketch. He told me about winning a tug of war competition - I always think of that when I look at this sketch. I'll leave it up to you which interpretation you want to go with...Wendy Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02092114325922550171noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557002475248765914.post-52567728124242363982015-10-26T10:58:00.000-07:002015-10-26T10:58:02.843-07:0020:20 time!I've been preparing my plate for the great 20:20 print exchange organised by the lovely people at Hot Bed Press.<br />
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This year I decided to try a slight variation on the sort of image I often make - I've gone for a more open view. Those who know my work well will hardly see any difference but, for me, it is moving forward. <br />
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I always start with sketches, drawn on location 10 mins walk from my village<br />
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First a quickie, then one to firm up some details and tone<br />
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The first etch, - hard ground line, allowed me to get a fairly accurate drawing<br />
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The next etch - open bite through thinned stop out, is all about tone....<br />
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Not bad, I've got some structure as well, but its going to need a softer use of tone to create distance and properly describe the foreground. I'll want some atmosphere too, a lot to ask of a small 10 x10cm plate, but a good chance to explore new ground.Wendy Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02092114325922550171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557002475248765914.post-27726766588872828202015-10-17T08:19:00.002-07:002015-10-18T09:47:36.033-07:00Countryside sketchbook updateI've begun scanning and up loading some sketches from earlier this year, good memories of the weather turning warmer...<br />
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... a taste of 4 new sketches on the Countryside page.Wendy Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02092114325922550171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557002475248765914.post-57606365490567862112015-10-11T06:34:00.000-07:002015-10-11T06:34:13.468-07:00Thank you RWA......for this fab photo on both their facebook and twitter pages which shows my print in the background.<br />
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Other images are drawings by Debbie Locke and Fiona Robinson. The visitor is looking at a great etching by Ian Chamberlain.Wendy Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02092114325922550171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557002475248765914.post-10597689037109989542015-10-11T05:30:00.002-07:002015-10-11T05:30:25.905-07:00Coast update<br />
Lots more coastal sketches on my 'Sketchbook -Coast' page from Cornwall and a few from Pembrokeshire.<br />
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