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…
That sinking feeling... I've been binge-watching Robyn McClendon recently when I get the chance. She is awesome with the gel press and I'm learning a lot. I got the idea of the bathmat from Froyle, and was interested to see that Robyn had also bought one, independently of Froyle, and was using it…
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…
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'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…
I have not blogged for a while because I have been extremely busy designing stencils and masks for my new gel press. This has been very time-consuming as Inkscape, the powerful free vector drawing program, is a continuous learning curve for me and I have encountered various problems along the way which took…
I have had such a lovely day on Saturday, full of creativity, receiving gifts, and ending with a really great phone conversation with a friend in the evening. My birthday present arrived from Ebay - my hubby is giving me a lovely boxed set of hardback books - the complete Chronicles of Narnia…
