Yesterday I made my first intuitive collage in the Organic Journal. I couldn't think of a title for it so it's just "Intuitive Collage 1." I didn't take any photos at the beginning as I was just sorting through my various papers to decide what to include in this project. Here is the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
