I have finally managed to finish sorting through the huge number of photos I took of this outing, and then selecting the ones to upload to my blog. Castle Drogo - Background Castle Drogo is one of our local National Trust properties, here in the County of Devon in the UK. It is…
A couple of fruitful hours in the studio this afternoon. Well, mostly... Paper Mesh Thinking about my paper mesh experiments recently and how generally unsatisfactory the results were, I thought a bit more about it and decided that the sprayed pieces might work best photographed and used as printables. In their "real" state,…
Paper mesh I did some more work on the packing paper mesh pieces I was working on recently. I didn't like the sheet from the scrunched up paper mesh stamping: so I added some coffee staining - which I also added to one of the baby wipes that needed a bit more attention…
Faded Fresco Walls At last I've managed to get the effect I want, as shown by Robyn McClendon. I wasn't able to get the Stainz product she uses during the first half of the video because the shipping to the UK is totally ridiculous. You can get the effect without it, though, with…
Yesterday I had fun in the studio, with more experiments in mixed media. Paper mesh I've only just discovered what this extraordinary paper is called. I got some in a parcel recently, wrapped around a glass jar. When I first came across what I used to call "expanded paper" (because it is like…
Is it reasonable for one person to have soooo much fun? I am finding gel printing and collage, and freeing up my style, the most creative stuff I have ever done, and it's so liberating. I can't get enough of it! Pierced paper I began today's session in the studio by following an…
This is what I have done with the final page where the paint through the pierced ovals bled through. Here is the page in its original state. I really didn't want another page with ovals as the main theme, so I decided to do another intuitive collage, using the ovals as the background.…
Venetian plaster/Fortuny-like backgrounds This is an attempt to follow what Robyn McClendon has been doing as a development of her passion for old walls. You can see the video here. I absolutely fell in love with this technique and the beautiful result and knew I just had to do it. The problem is,…
Before beginning this page, I completed the preparation of the rest of the pages in the book. I watched one of Robyn McClendon's videos, the start of her series on an altered book, and I wished I'd seen this before I started with this journal! She gave some excellent instructions about how to…
Emulsion Watching Robyn McClendon the other day, she produced some absolutely scrumptious "old wall" prints on her gel press, using matte acrylic or chalk paints. She brayered this paint onto the plate and then spritzed it with dye ink which immediately reacted and started beading up and pulling away from the paint. She…
