November 3rd

Been doing a fair bit of drawing, including a day of life drawing that was tiring - not helped by the fact that the room was rather warm for the model's comfort. However, I was pleased with some of my efforts - the proportions aren't necessarily flattering, and some are not accurate, but I think I managed to get the solidity of some of teh shapes reasonably.





This encouraged me to do some more sketches - I've not been practising enough. This one is of my left hand holding the sketchbook...



The printing is also coming along. The colourful screenprint tile print has been finished - with screen printed scrabble tiles with letters monoprinted. I'm not sure about the end product, but it does demonstrate some of the techniques.


The red-brown tiles with thick textured paint have been made into a collagraph plat by inking them up and pressing them onto paper. I coloured one tile differently to teh rest.


I've also done some lino prints, still on teh 'tile' theme, with a pattern based on the standard 'Redland 49' roof tile.


I also did a 'negative print, printed two (almost) interlocking, and using different colours.

Finally on the printing side, today I worked on a collagraph, using paper and card mounted on a piece of hardboard. It took a bit of planning to get the right thicknesses and teh correct layering of the card, but the resuklt was about what I hoped. One was printed on some paper I'd roughly coloured, and some others were on plain paper, but with different parts inked using different colours.




I've also been working on teh postcard wall, and paid a visit to the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill for the essay, and to listen to some odd music. But I've written enough today.