A level talent impresses at GPC

My talented A level students from Katharine Lady Berkeley's School have been invited to show at the Gloucestershire Printmaking Co-operative studios in the Printmakers Gallery

The prints shown in this exhibition have been selected from students who are studying 

Fine Art, Graphic Communication or Photography at AS and A level. 

Print is introduced to the students as a creative and flexible tool 

allowing them to explore and develop imagery. 

 Printmakers of the future

up the steps to the Printmakers Gallery at Griffin Mill, Stroud

IMPRESSIVE INSIGHT

Insight Printmakers at the cosy and welcoming Wotton Gallery this wekend until 22nd March.

We're having a launch event on Saturday 1 - 4pm, you'll be very welcome!

The gallery has been hung very beautifully by gallery staff  Belinda and Cate, a huge thank you to them for their talented support.

Printing squarely - bringing out the image

I left this print on the last post at the first tonal stage. The second layer of tone gave much more detail and I can see where I'm going now...

Final stage adding in the line work, defining the perspective and leading the eye to the distant point.

Oct 5th 5.15pm

I left the title of the print fairly ambiguous - different months have layers of meaning for different people - I hope the time suggests a relaxing point in the day to be out for a walk.

This print will partner the previous square print at my little exhibition in a month's time.

Rusty techniques

A fever of rusting has afflicted some creative friends recently. The shapes and marks they have achieved have been both fascinating and intriguing but the colour is the thing that piqued my interest - maybe this is the way to introduce some natural colour to my prints.

First rust print- washers, screw heads and alan keys all found in an old tin in the garage.

Leaving things sat on the paper overnight made shapes too strong to over print.

Randomly placed pieces, lifted before the rust print is too strong and then re-placed to create overlaps has better potential for me.

I found that spraying a much recommended tea solution added too much colour to the paper, but a very salty solution sprayed from a plant mister released the rust print in a controllable way.

Delicious marks in close up.

A large washer, found appropriately in the print co-op car park, produced rust that was too strong for the final image, but shows there could be potential.
Next step is to print on the testers shown above.