Another page in my wonderful Organic Journal is complete! I have called this one "Voynich Circles" because it includes images from the famous Voynich Manuscript. What is the Voynich Manuscript? This is a very curious artefact. It is a book dating from the 15th century which contains hand-written text and many illustrations, some…
Before I get started on the main theme of this post, I'd like to share what arrived from Ebay recently. Glorious hand-made papers A fabulous mixed collection of 20 sheets of A4 hand-made papers. They are all quite thick, and deeply textured, and the most beautiful earthy natural colours. They also have genuine…
A quick update with some recent photos which I haven't been able to share for the past few weeks, given that I was too busy posting about my various studio-based activities. Flowers My hubby has outdone himself again this year with bedding plants for our troughs and tubs in the patio, to make…
Completing the Tyvek sunflower In my previous post, I described how I made a sunflower from Tyvek. I got as far as making a mock-up to see how the petals might be arranged, and I still had the centre of the flower to make. I cut a 2-inch circle of Tyvek from a…
What is Tyvek and how can we use it? Tyvek is a non-woven high density polyethylene membrane manufactured by American company DuPont, used in the building trade to wrap buildings. It is water-resistant but pervious to water vapour (breathable), resistant to tearing, but easy to cut. It is immensely strong and flexible. There…
My wonderful ghastly pink cheap bathmat! I got this monstrosity on Ebay. Not for my bathroom, but for art! (The bathmat mask in the photo is what I designed to cut from Tyvek - all the shapes are there, but not the additional texture provided by the suction cups on the underside of…
Does anyone deserve to have as much fun as I am having at the moment? Playing with my new stencils and masks, and my gel press, are giving me soooo much pleasure! Spraying inks and making a glorious mess I began by testing out my new Oriental script block stencils that I wrote…
Just a few stragglers from yesterday's session in the studio. I decided I wanted to make some stencils to go with the Oriental script masks. I also made another scallops one, which ended up as a mask rather than a stencil - when I cut it, the whole of the middle fell out!…
Shoshi is going to need rehab! I can well understand why people say that gel printing is addictive. I can't remember when I had so much fun in my studio as I had this afternoon, trying out my new stencils with the gel plate. There is something incredibly satisfying about brayering the paint…
Shoshi's brainstorm When I was doing the work for the last blog post on the subject of my stencils, I think I was having some sort of brainstorm! Later, I couldn't believe how stupid I'd been - somehow I was unable to wrap my head around the whole stencil/mask business, and added bridges…
