tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90610238932134219202024-03-18T01:45:55.869+00:00Clare SherwenClareSherwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588465559327452638noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061023893213421920.post-68522663398189781002024-03-10T12:47:00.004+00:002024-03-10T16:13:50.779+00:00Making a Crackle Printing Plate!<p><span style="font-size: medium;">I have been doing a lot of experimenting recently with overlaying a crackle textured printing plate on top of some of my older collagraph printing plates to create some different patterns and age. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I discovered, by accident, a few years ago a reaction to using two different shiny paints which causes the top coat to crack and then produce fine lines which are an interesting texture to print. These are all completely random so are very fun to produce!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Here's how about making a crackle printing plate:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpxQYC5goxW_HfRGeahCc3ha552x21teTYsKtIiJcGdem_dPSJEctP5_8297kBSMSr3B6mxnJOfMzXhZAp49HMCu7tBqYac6GFnSNOhGewMgmxaYUj-YakJIXdQHaKUkYdCr88jTpCVqOIJLbvDB4qn6V5r8vOCQFo1OHlbTTgKIYG6N7otpgY30RZYXM/s4140/IMG_3074.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2782" data-original-width="4140" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpxQYC5goxW_HfRGeahCc3ha552x21teTYsKtIiJcGdem_dPSJEctP5_8297kBSMSr3B6mxnJOfMzXhZAp49HMCu7tBqYac6GFnSNOhGewMgmxaYUj-YakJIXdQHaKUkYdCr88jTpCVqOIJLbvDB4qn6V5r8vOCQFo1OHlbTTgKIYG6N7otpgY30RZYXM/w400-h269/IMG_3074.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I use a piece of scrap mountboard cut to size. Then I apply a layer of gloss acrylic medium all over the mountboard. It doesn't have to be too even, infact as uneven as possible seems to produce more interesting cracks!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0-uXWs_Amb-NYFZ-NRVfDkUCRZO4z3e6Pl3wdrFHYN6Y5-1jx1WD-fvd6jMbKlDcZ5bFAthyphenhyphenr153xma1LZdmgkoHfJkYVf_YAqyYA9ow0KZhn5T-wrfG68Qfhh9ix_5u0tmnz06hZrvEQkc2n4ZvrzcpyJz2swapSacnnXYWHnUQQBF6psHjpl_KDXaQ/s4896/IMG_3075.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="2912" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0-uXWs_Amb-NYFZ-NRVfDkUCRZO4z3e6Pl3wdrFHYN6Y5-1jx1WD-fvd6jMbKlDcZ5bFAthyphenhyphenr153xma1LZdmgkoHfJkYVf_YAqyYA9ow0KZhn5T-wrfG68Qfhh9ix_5u0tmnz06hZrvEQkc2n4ZvrzcpyJz2swapSacnnXYWHnUQQBF6psHjpl_KDXaQ/w238-h400/IMG_3075.JPG" width="238" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Once the acrylic medium is completely dry I add a layer of radiator paint (it only works with the cheapest possible radiator paint, this one was about £5 from B & M Bargains) Again this layer doesn't need to be even. The radiator paint then needs to dry out overnight and the reaction is best done in a cold room (I have put the prinitng plates in the fridgeto crackle too!)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmfIMIZGQxAdwrEWaAoGdc_S2rD2tqGGLSXBtU1bR_RH6lr83NXHJnH9DXXDp3JW6C62V3VdsS2h8o4qhlR3HJwZd3TSdKgxyyvvyYRR9gfluFHBH_h4teghV2a2B7rFKJrTd0tqjDn-lm3CadBHtWN2-62pmVHCJRzpvzAP6TsabfwBImp_MxJ5w4PGI/s5184/IMG_3076.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2912" data-original-width="5184" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmfIMIZGQxAdwrEWaAoGdc_S2rD2tqGGLSXBtU1bR_RH6lr83NXHJnH9DXXDp3JW6C62V3VdsS2h8o4qhlR3HJwZd3TSdKgxyyvvyYRR9gfluFHBH_h4teghV2a2B7rFKJrTd0tqjDn-lm3CadBHtWN2-62pmVHCJRzpvzAP6TsabfwBImp_MxJ5w4PGI/w400-h225/IMG_3076.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A tiny bit of cracking is starting in the corners after a few hours but don't be tempted to touch these plates until at least 24 hours has passed and they are completely dry.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiQVnxyD4jp6mDTWp5212fOH0HQbzpKS0DLTsMiWsyUw8DPhaSxlaLLptGzwGoXrRMTYNhYo3zVEL4ISlPvw46TXk9Mc19a7cVQlVWlAgdY6KY-q80tqf_Zk9bBY04qhv9CefV1ojcIwCieheMsHTDOrbWZqMaHj7b5cq4BZXVrGQ_5rUQGuvNs-t_sXI/s4305/IMG_3166.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4305" data-original-width="2782" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiQVnxyD4jp6mDTWp5212fOH0HQbzpKS0DLTsMiWsyUw8DPhaSxlaLLptGzwGoXrRMTYNhYo3zVEL4ISlPvw46TXk9Mc19a7cVQlVWlAgdY6KY-q80tqf_Zk9bBY04qhv9CefV1ojcIwCieheMsHTDOrbWZqMaHj7b5cq4BZXVrGQ_5rUQGuvNs-t_sXI/w259-h400/IMG_3166.JPG" width="259" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Its hard to photograph the cracks as they are white on white! Heres the finished crackle printing plate all inked up with yellow ochre ink and my Dudley Castle collagraph printing plate ready to be printed.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7aBqCsiKLpG2NrlpQqxmnSsyRspSTXOf_wkeS-aZITzEH7d2DHBW64CAMWGB4DOjRxM1uDdP6pC6a4OQfxkxRAVz8lgM4RM2LX-3zK0utzSKFoRH9X1TVix2vrhWhibfvwMT-L4FlpsOKosqwt2XnCxUGWMqDidcdn9myH6WG2fC9XM0Qh-DJItevZEc/s4466/IMG_3167.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2672" data-original-width="4466" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7aBqCsiKLpG2NrlpQqxmnSsyRspSTXOf_wkeS-aZITzEH7d2DHBW64CAMWGB4DOjRxM1uDdP6pC6a4OQfxkxRAVz8lgM4RM2LX-3zK0utzSKFoRH9X1TVix2vrhWhibfvwMT-L4FlpsOKosqwt2XnCxUGWMqDidcdn9myH6WG2fC9XM0Qh-DJItevZEc/w400-h239/IMG_3167.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The castle printing plate goes through the printing press first with the edge of the paper caught slightly under the roller so that I can then align and replace the castle printing plate with the crackle printing plate to print on top of the image.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK6Gyr6PuGkj05AiNy9P0CKVjigmZ7h7hMQMOF8U2V6uP_HFxuwO4mtWINy0w9wgNS3YeFA2O4oIuUrxdJn-ccpPd_0IDP7LPI7Cz-1y6ptXXkmNfH0VyybrjKiHjWAX83TSc67tc-uPNsvQBTxs98p3VOokjrgdBSXqaIxye-q8UX3VybmMgKRznZ1lw/s5184/IMG_3168.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2912" data-original-width="5184" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK6Gyr6PuGkj05AiNy9P0CKVjigmZ7h7hMQMOF8U2V6uP_HFxuwO4mtWINy0w9wgNS3YeFA2O4oIuUrxdJn-ccpPd_0IDP7LPI7Cz-1y6ptXXkmNfH0VyybrjKiHjWAX83TSc67tc-uPNsvQBTxs98p3VOokjrgdBSXqaIxye-q8UX3VybmMgKRznZ1lw/w400-h225/IMG_3168.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The crackle plate is then printed on top of the castle image. (As the ink is still wet you can see some residual ink left from the castle on the crackle plate)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://folksy.com/items/8302828-Dudley-Castle-Collagraph-Limited-Edition-Hand-Pulled-Print" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="Dudley Castle Collagraph Print" border="0" data-original-height="2808" data-original-width="3689" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIq1J79uo-q-T2Ra4TkMPTJTl8ZQ4-mkv3Os6yyEKaSb_ThFpYV9-HKo97uOyH4E_TqWBytxUKD5hwNthZzcN30ZVblG7Z3uD6wCY6jNB6gPadu6Fn0BWnSrvXBHq8tlmGuP2A3Qm9RIZs6Tjg8VsOSgG4-hfiKDIIC_no41OixudY7F-wPNuQJI9nLy4/w640-h488/IMG_3175%20copy.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm only printing these in very small editions, four for this one.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhklok5JzdV1nr2233Q-tIg2l3lky-wUwmJZzwUdkcegpx0SdWENFAOximpVtBq2k0wDRzCzhOSnuxMVEqrOEnuoJguEPCPj21_ntlwhOw2zC-pH-E50P87vmXyHwF4en4lRrarwRpJb_PWk_23K_OXbywi4Tnid1MrOPU3jO9or7kbUu7ioAUgmKDNXmA/s1470/Dudley%20Castle%20crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1188" data-original-width="1470" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhklok5JzdV1nr2233Q-tIg2l3lky-wUwmJZzwUdkcegpx0SdWENFAOximpVtBq2k0wDRzCzhOSnuxMVEqrOEnuoJguEPCPj21_ntlwhOw2zC-pH-E50P87vmXyHwF4en4lRrarwRpJb_PWk_23K_OXbywi4Tnid1MrOPU3jO9or7kbUu7ioAUgmKDNXmA/w640-h518/Dudley%20Castle%20crop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">A close up of the finished collagraph print so that you can see the interesting textures created by the crackle plate!</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Clare x</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>ClareSherwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588465559327452638noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061023893213421920.post-80585837579412547062024-02-17T16:45:00.000+00:002024-02-17T16:45:26.252+00:00Printing a Staircase!<p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs1NV03nc4TCvAnL02hUugBT8tPoUYK-xntrTsvYvR5Fqp9diUR5uesNdyZTuxXdnWPEwpkxsd5AYducZgAukvgaFp0y9RxzWRtA1Z-tdSSqaVlVVfOl_qYtRDdC9JAOnOrbu8OeCX1Hxqf2WozQ78rfzIlL8hdLYNqJK2ixXMN-eeUn2x1elSc3AA0u4/s3540/IMG_3071%20copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3540" data-original-width="2640" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs1NV03nc4TCvAnL02hUugBT8tPoUYK-xntrTsvYvR5Fqp9diUR5uesNdyZTuxXdnWPEwpkxsd5AYducZgAukvgaFp0y9RxzWRtA1Z-tdSSqaVlVVfOl_qYtRDdC9JAOnOrbu8OeCX1Hxqf2WozQ78rfzIlL8hdLYNqJK2ixXMN-eeUn2x1elSc3AA0u4/w281-h376/IMG_3071%20copy.jpg" width="281" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">After visiting Picton Castle last year I was fascinated by the crumbling staircase there and I really wanted to depict it as a collagraph print. I finally got round to making the printing plate the end of last year but I really felt it needed something more so I made another printing plate to go over the top with crackles on it. I felt this really depicted the age and added a bit more interest and depth.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I inked up and printed both of the printing plates at the same time.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Inking up and wiping both printing plates below.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggQlI4Cld-diLtO0_pewZqGAJSMO1xCA_fonr3A4UUAmKojCh5YX2sTz-GmTqEDmdIcQ9Qs4ayglYl9qPBASLs2UmvDE0caAQBwaBp-puZPnjQS-57fKKELrvn20r_UkiJf9kkHbYJhU-m04iKt8MYy9Eg7e760shUtmtK_tIRB2M36KnEsjzv8Xj1uqo/s3804/IMG_3055.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2694" data-original-width="3804" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggQlI4Cld-diLtO0_pewZqGAJSMO1xCA_fonr3A4UUAmKojCh5YX2sTz-GmTqEDmdIcQ9Qs4ayglYl9qPBASLs2UmvDE0caAQBwaBp-puZPnjQS-57fKKELrvn20r_UkiJf9kkHbYJhU-m04iKt8MYy9Eg7e760shUtmtK_tIRB2M36KnEsjzv8Xj1uqo/s320/IMG_3055.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaqSiJh-fjxO9m25f2jU5U-3vR8KJT-jRkcDoNde4rkkgKuxHs5S4DHLDzal2n5PBgRsK2Ohgs-ChI3Lfm8gGqH765D9KbF_0vKz-iS0Ve_E-mFwl2Vi7RSdfv0ZnqFo9QhLxgBy2VycRUowoQMOBNw1q99wjJNzhG9xvOQn7C1ZtQC-s14yY_EjA_lH4/s4733/IMG_3057.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2912" data-original-width="4733" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaqSiJh-fjxO9m25f2jU5U-3vR8KJT-jRkcDoNde4rkkgKuxHs5S4DHLDzal2n5PBgRsK2Ohgs-ChI3Lfm8gGqH765D9KbF_0vKz-iS0Ve_E-mFwl2Vi7RSdfv0ZnqFo9QhLxgBy2VycRUowoQMOBNw1q99wjJNzhG9xvOQn7C1ZtQC-s14yY_EjA_lH4/s320/IMG_3057.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: large;">The first printing plate was printed on my etching press of the staircase inked up in blue/black ink.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvbHDsQIw9bTlsQKMvJmaJXPV9lOtbkHtajdjB0VpFzchqfs7DyaGUZ6VH7eiTn51cU8e4LqACQgTTV5CRmjkEi3TOxaBHBVEUaeEjcR_DcVD-IegAVtKBK6K2EGAdPMTtKE9co5lYEY9EopFItWMEKYOhXft9mhJUjCGEipugEvhXa4Mt74R4iDnxCmg/s5184/IMG_3060.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2912" data-original-width="5184" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvbHDsQIw9bTlsQKMvJmaJXPV9lOtbkHtajdjB0VpFzchqfs7DyaGUZ6VH7eiTn51cU8e4LqACQgTTV5CRmjkEi3TOxaBHBVEUaeEjcR_DcVD-IegAVtKBK6K2EGAdPMTtKE9co5lYEY9EopFItWMEKYOhXft9mhJUjCGEipugEvhXa4Mt74R4iDnxCmg/w340-h191/IMG_3060.JPG" width="340" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">I kept the paper caught under the roller of the printing press so it wouldn't move and then placed the crackle plate inked with yellow ochre printing ink ready to print.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU5FeXeJEN-7p8UWAD3J4Ba0688ByzcUMpJ_Ic1I7Ul_anMzCZKy8SxwK0inwNgYhEP0W0GiOueKrkW9wOxIqn_i1H6E5CScW6to3wvZg9-QDhsTysAIIY9TvBQY95FCoFzIaA1AipWpJ1cBItVZljQmQo9s8VolmAtoNXUHtnuXXqOlkNnUBpE7-OGx4/s5184/IMG_3061.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2912" data-original-width="5184" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU5FeXeJEN-7p8UWAD3J4Ba0688ByzcUMpJ_Ic1I7Ul_anMzCZKy8SxwK0inwNgYhEP0W0GiOueKrkW9wOxIqn_i1H6E5CScW6to3wvZg9-QDhsTysAIIY9TvBQY95FCoFzIaA1AipWpJ1cBItVZljQmQo9s8VolmAtoNXUHtnuXXqOlkNnUBpE7-OGx4/w355-h200/IMG_3061.JPG" width="355" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-size: large;">This was then printed on top of the staircase print. (A little of the staircase ink transfers to the printing plate too!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU_QzKWRE4YD43rdDygBjdOqJjNF2JSSJ6pw24f2TzHX0-rs6PMEcpbDgocniNFnEt7W9eIqap1UNk0H3heNPGyCKe0Ajuxp5VbRMR6wPhcgkOeURo3_ccQqqBCDn7eP7ZlUJdeEke7wdx1o7-bo1OsNP2KGqLnGr_cs5wij_dRxL4i2UFSnDJkiAMBsM/s5184/IMG_3065.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2912" data-original-width="5184" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU_QzKWRE4YD43rdDygBjdOqJjNF2JSSJ6pw24f2TzHX0-rs6PMEcpbDgocniNFnEt7W9eIqap1UNk0H3heNPGyCKe0Ajuxp5VbRMR6wPhcgkOeURo3_ccQqqBCDn7eP7ZlUJdeEke7wdx1o7-bo1OsNP2KGqLnGr_cs5wij_dRxL4i2UFSnDJkiAMBsM/s320/IMG_3065.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-size: large;">The finished collagraph print hot off the printing press!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNMWis1DZZl81vRxkKBeHrPdxUTt2Qxx39AV5VXCMqXcM6zuVj7Dsy3Kdi1tFsqzekW2qn3CQoAnMkciXOBmJrIE9-WHhk3c5uIZdwTMrabEJB6fKur6pSETU9ehoQmNLNhbt-wbsh3oBhOmFHxwgmw3IWlJ9xANbXpKiNdfQPzoxbEtYxzDH0V-q-1iI/s5184/IMG_3067.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2912" data-original-width="5184" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNMWis1DZZl81vRxkKBeHrPdxUTt2Qxx39AV5VXCMqXcM6zuVj7Dsy3Kdi1tFsqzekW2qn3CQoAnMkciXOBmJrIE9-WHhk3c5uIZdwTMrabEJB6fKur6pSETU9ehoQmNLNhbt-wbsh3oBhOmFHxwgmw3IWlJ9xANbXpKiNdfQPzoxbEtYxzDH0V-q-1iI/w441-h248/IMG_3067.JPG" width="441" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjazIrSCs8SYe8hyphenhyphenhX_OwEzHopCBFNoBB-7zVIKCYSRp9d5RQIMUCIF9YKV5Px4kDVlgi1HVFZbujaMuc4NSJwU7FOyfeiYPxVlMmUmTviZKRiisJv2XvrLtcKVOSWkyM0qWTNvmkmDHH7mUtFohvOECPY4JKsdFMD1cOs6ng56O5W0wMRdjIagEcBXaeo/s3740/IMG_3070%20copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3740" data-original-width="2745" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjazIrSCs8SYe8hyphenhyphenhX_OwEzHopCBFNoBB-7zVIKCYSRp9d5RQIMUCIF9YKV5Px4kDVlgi1HVFZbujaMuc4NSJwU7FOyfeiYPxVlMmUmTviZKRiisJv2XvrLtcKVOSWkyM0qWTNvmkmDHH7mUtFohvOECPY4JKsdFMD1cOs6ng56O5W0wMRdjIagEcBXaeo/w277-h378/IMG_3070%20copy.jpg" width="277" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-size: large;">I'm really enjoying playing with crackle plates at the moment so will be doing lots more experimenting!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Clare x</span></p><p><br /></p></div>ClareSherwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588465559327452638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061023893213421920.post-8770365420223827822020-07-28T19:21:00.002+01:002020-07-28T19:27:48.544+01:00Painting a Mad Hatter Tiger<span style="font-size: large;">I decided to have a go at filming myself while painting, it was my first time so I was a bit nervous! 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<span style="font-size: large;">I managed to attach my camera to a chair to keep it steady. I did discover the camera was in the way quite a lot and also my hand kept blocking the view as I was painting, so next time I might set it up a bit differently, but in the end it wasn't too bad. I also knocked the camera a couple of times but luckily it isn't too noticable in the finished version of the video! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've speeded up the video and made over an hour of painting into just over a minute, wish I could always paint that fast!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's the finished painting:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://folksy.com/items/7509224-Mad-Hatter-Tiger-Art-Original-Acrylic-Painting-on-Canvas-OOAK-Retro-" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Mad Hatter Tiger - Acrylic Painting</span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've also made it into a greeting card:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://folksy.com/items/7509331-Mad-Hatter-Tiger-Cat-Art-Greeting-Card-From-my-Original-Painting" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Mad Hatter Tiger - Greeting Card</span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And a badge set:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://folksy.com/items/7511538-Steampunk-Tigers-Cats-Animal-Art-Badges-Buttons-Cosplay" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Steampunk Tigers - Badge Set</span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I have tigers everywhere!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm looking forward to another foray into filming soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Clare xx</span>ClareSherwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588465559327452638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061023893213421920.post-61977571613143990192020-05-28T13:35:00.020+01:002020-05-29T14:55:50.753+01:00Art Exhibitions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font face="arial" size="4"><br /></font></div><font face="arial" size="4">In these weird times the way we exhibit artwork has changed an awful lot. I have just entered three online exhibitions (keep your fingers crossed!) and thought I'd have a look back at some of my recent exhibitions.</font><div><font face="arial" size="4"><br /></font><div><font face="arial" size="4"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I started off the year really well by managing to get one of my
collagraph prints "Tiger Relax" accepted into a very difficult
exhibition to get into, the </span><a href="http://www.rbsa.org.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">RBSA</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> (Royal Birmingham
Society of Artists) Open exhibition. </span></font></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><font face="arial" size="4"><br /></font></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhivgXw54K-kek0lHMxxSDeEOorx-6B4z5H7v95T5BmSD9qi4NhUjLfsT8ycy8QjRG5j5vde5GqB4hE43m1LjZH_4bX-u-3_BtIP9vabs-uVbf225xgEf54J83BfX_W9yEXkT1IjMCKpOQ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><font face="arial" size="4"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhivgXw54K-kek0lHMxxSDeEOorx-6B4z5H7v95T5BmSD9qi4NhUjLfsT8ycy8QjRG5j5vde5GqB4hE43m1LjZH_4bX-u-3_BtIP9vabs-uVbf225xgEf54J83BfX_W9yEXkT1IjMCKpOQ/w640-h480/89090682_3030495803635517_7040480528142696448_n.jpg" width="640" /></font></a></div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><font face="arial" size="4"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFk5DZqT5bnJrFajJCX_M3c9geXZ7M4Gp7wKr9t46PCLQcFbIRRN30lcLJUdOq7JIH4wQC277h4INNKl9lG0R55J2qPlMhsjDga3jNnZiSgW-xWQsUoXcehVKAtetIuz7mqZzI5Ca0jeY/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><font face="arial" size="4"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFk5DZqT5bnJrFajJCX_M3c9geXZ7M4Gp7wKr9t46PCLQcFbIRRN30lcLJUdOq7JIH4wQC277h4INNKl9lG0R55J2qPlMhsjDga3jNnZiSgW-xWQsUoXcehVKAtetIuz7mqZzI5Ca0jeY/w640-h480/20200308133158_IMG_0059.JPG" title=""Tiger Relax" collagraph print" width="640" /></font></a></div><div><font face="arial" size="4"><br /></font><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><font face="arial">This exhibition opened in March and luckily I managed to see it before
lockdown happened and the gallery closed. Sadly I didn't get to wear my posh
frock as the closing party was cancelled! The exhibition is actually
still on at the gallery, as it couldn't be taken down, and I'm hoping the
building ghosts are enjoying their exclusive exhibition at the moment!</font></span></div></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="arial" size="4"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p>M</o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">y favourite exhibition of last year had to be the </span><a href="https://www.wolverhamptonsocietyofartists.co.uk/centenary-exhibition/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Wolverhampton Society of Artists </span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Centenary
exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery in December. I was very shocked to win first prize in the Selection Panel Choice and got to meet the Mayor of Wolverhampton who presented me with my certificate!</span></font></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKwmMY5m769HMh-e5FIapxdlO6eDqiOrMR8mEoP19xa3y2ewktM0TELKxEcXwemDpCFwaE_RB-GuzgAQS7IFrldhgZsJGsM76i-4t6mdAO7y9mXn_uuSWH2pTK0Uj4UX6EaoWzrnWWxmw/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><font face="arial" size="4"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKwmMY5m769HMh-e5FIapxdlO6eDqiOrMR8mEoP19xa3y2ewktM0TELKxEcXwemDpCFwaE_RB-GuzgAQS7IFrldhgZsJGsM76i-4t6mdAO7y9mXn_uuSWH2pTK0Uj4UX6EaoWzrnWWxmw/w480-h640/80339097_2836841823000917_3682858684506963968_o.jpg" width="480" /></font></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font face="arial" size="4"><br /></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEKsGyZ4qFIPE2lXGiOkPm6aO1-YrqjHatl6nJK9QZkx9TNW0ydmrmHzGMgSJ8lB-LfE4NoKm4sPK_r6jPVRHqfwfFp0RkWMa-2WeMjLLDigc6PwiQz_2kxdtnUuZTRjrPMq5ECqfWy20/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><font face="arial" size="4"><img border="0" data-original-height="901" data-original-width="960" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEKsGyZ4qFIPE2lXGiOkPm6aO1-YrqjHatl6nJK9QZkx9TNW0ydmrmHzGMgSJ8lB-LfE4NoKm4sPK_r6jPVRHqfwfFp0RkWMa-2WeMjLLDigc6PwiQz_2kxdtnUuZTRjrPMq5ECqfWy20/w640-h600/FB_IMG_1576354397342.jpg" width="640" /></font></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="arial" size="4">I also exhibited another couple of times at the RBSA last year. Back in March 2019 for the Open All Media exhibtion, where I exhibited an oil painting for the very first time!</font></p></div><div><font face="arial" size="4"><br /></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd8jjva_IKx_nzEE4l739kpuD4ZJKt6DsMR5LBsv3vWT0KxjqriNBjFr2pi33KLOBoQDAekvpLP8JG_7O9g6kXwNGarbC9EnagtKI3JvZC8jBtYrcf0hRb2Ai_R2TRDu-9P_zNTl4K0xE/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><font face="arial" size="4"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd8jjva_IKx_nzEE4l739kpuD4ZJKt6DsMR5LBsv3vWT0KxjqriNBjFr2pi33KLOBoQDAekvpLP8JG_7O9g6kXwNGarbC9EnagtKI3JvZC8jBtYrcf0hRb2Ai_R2TRDu-9P_zNTl4K0xE/w640-h480/IMG_20190314_184247017.jpg" title=""Red Panda" Oil Painting" width="640" /></font></a></div><div><font face="arial" size="4"><br /></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><font face="arial" size="4">And in July 2019 I exhibited my collagraph print "Tiger
Feet" in the annual Friends exhibition and even got to do a 5 minute talk
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<span style="font-size: large;">A few months ago I treated myself to a new camera and took it to Dudley Zoo to try it out and get some interesting animal shots. The male tiger Joao likes to pose and I got some really good shots of him ready to be made into some artwork.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While on lockdown I thought I would try a different painting medium - oil paints. I haven't done an oil painting for ages as I loose my patience with it as it takes a long time to dry so I tend to use acrylic paint more but I thought as I have plenty of time I would give it a go again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I took a few photos while I was painting. Here's the very first layer, I just like to cover the whole canvas with thinned down paint and just establish as much of the image as I can very loosely. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A few layers in and I'm just trying to establish a bit more detail but also I like to get a palette knife out and scrape the paint off again so you can see some of the other layers. I can't help it with oil paint I love scraping at it and the interesting marks the palette knife makes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The finished painting. I've darkened down the background and added a bit more detail but still tried to keep the expressiveness of the marks of the paint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the end I could only really manage painting this tiger in small 10 minute chunks so I'm very pleased with how it came out. Will have to try another oil painting soon too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Clare xx</span>ClareSherwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588465559327452638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061023893213421920.post-27372784179858644752020-03-29T15:21:00.001+01:002020-03-29T15:21:38.479+01:00Tigers & Mucky Bottoms!<span style="font-size: large;">Normally if I'm printing more than one colour I try and add all my colours onto one collagraph printing plate and print it in one go, as its a lot easier! I decided to challenge myself and try out a different method involving two printing plates and a mucky bottom! I thought I would depict my favourite subject, a tiger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are the two printing plates side by side. One is very much like my normal collagraph printing plate with lots of detail and tone, the other is a bit more abstract and will be used for background of the image.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started by inking up the more abstract plate for the background with a lovely vibrant orange ink. (apologies for the blurriness of this image, trying to take the photo left handed and not succeeding very well!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The background plate is inked and then wiped so that the rougher areas of the printing plate hold more ink and the smoother areas hold less ink and will therefore print lighter. It is ready to be printed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But first I need to get the main printing plate ready to print as I will be printing them almost at the same time. I've had to completely clean up everything first, getting rid of any orange ink, newspaper, gloves etc so I don't contaminate this plate with any orange ink. The printing pate is then covered in blue/black ink and then wiped with newspaper and tissue paper. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Firstly the background printing plate is placed onto the printing press onto a clean scrap piece of paper and a slightly dampened piece of printing paper is put on top, with the blanket on top of this. This is then run under the rollers so that it prints onto the slightly dampened paper. The paper is then peeled back and very carefully trapped under the rollers so that it doesn't move and the printing plate is removed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This leaves behind an imprint of where the printing plate was on the scrap paper, its mucky bottom! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can then place the main printing plate on top of this mucky bottom (making sure I put it the right way up!) aligning exactly where the first printing plate was on the scrap paper and as the slightly dampened paper was trapped in the rollers it should go back over the printing plate in exactly the same place as where the first plate was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This then goes through the rollers again transferring the black ink on top of the already printed orange image. The big reveal, has it worked or not?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One tiger hot off the printing press!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's the finished tiger print, I'm thinking of trying it in a few different colours too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I thought I'd introduce you all to my art studio where I produce all my artwork and which started out in my spare room and now seems to have gradually spread all around my flat!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My lovely table-top etching press taking pride of place in my studio. It's very well used and a little bit inky, as its quite a few years old now, but has printed many tigers, hippos, cats etc and is still going strong!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lots of inks etc being supervised by Morph and Kermit!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My desk, which I was very proud of managing to put together when I had a flatpack building frenzy when I first moved in. Including my best purchase of last year, a badge maker, which has proved incredibly popular at all of my selling events.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was trying to keep all my artwork activities in my spare room but because the light is amazing in my living room I seem to end up painting in there instead and have gradually taken over my dining table! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A very sneaky look at what I am working on at the moment. Two brand new collagraph printing plates, lots more work to do on them but I should be proofing them very soon. I will never learn to not leave my hot chocolate near my artwork, I've lost track of how many times I've dipped my brush in it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just to show that I definitely do take over everywhere - an improvised drying rack for my hand printed tote bags in my main bathroom! I also use the bath to soak my paper when I am printing so its a good job I have an en-suite shower room I can use too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm house hunting at the moment so hopefully I will have a brand new studio to show you soon too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Clare xx</span>ClareSherwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588465559327452638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061023893213421920.post-81172336861749217362020-01-09T19:28:00.002+00:002020-01-09T19:30:43.929+00:00Tiger Print<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Back in July last year I was in my usual place by the tiger enclosure at Dudley Zoo when the tigers suddenly started mating! The male tiger strutted off looking very proud of himself and the female rolled over onto her back and just looked very chilled and relaxed. I managed to get quite a few photos of her and knew I would have to do some artwork featuring such an unusual pose for a tiger!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I did a couple of acrylic paintings featuring the very happy tiger:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I also had to depict her in a collagraph print too. A collagraph print is a p<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">rint created from a card plate made by adding glue, paint, enamel etc. This holds the ink in varying degrees and is then printed through the intaglio process.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sadly the original printing plate (which took hours to make!) warped in the printing press due to some of the paint being too thick, so that one had to be binned. This is the second collagraph printing plate just finished and ready to be printed:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lots of blue/black intaglio ink is wiped all over the printing plate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And then wiped off again! The ink stays in the textured parts of the printing plate and wipes off the smoother parts which will print lighter or white.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The printing plate is then placed onto the intaglio press and a slightly damp piece of paper is put on top. all of this is covered with a blanket and then put through the printing press which forces the ink off the printing plate onto the paper, leaving the paper slightly embossed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The finished collagraph print, framed and ready for exhibition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I decided to enter her into the <a href="https://www.wolverhamptonsocietyofartists.co.uk/" target="_blank">Wolverhampton Society of Artists</a> new <a href="https://www.wolverhamptonsocietyofartists.co.uk/centenary-exhibition/" target="_blank">Centenary Exhibition</a> at Wolverhampton Art Gallery and luckily she was accepted! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Also I was very shocked and proud to receive the first prize for the Selection Panel Choice and got to meet the Mayor of Wolverhampton who presented me with a certificate and book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The exhibition is on until February 16th and well worth a look and you can see a very relaxed looking tiger!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've had a few days off work this week so I thought I'd dig out my etching press and do a little bit of printmaking!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I decided to have a go at some drypoint printmaking as its very quick and immediate. Drypoint is where the i<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">mage is scratched into the printing plate using a "drypoint" creating a line and also producing a burr, which is a rough ridge on the plate that prints a slightly ragged line, these lines hold the ink when printed and produce a rich velvety texture.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I found the drypoint needle that I was given while at university and 26 years later it still works absolutely fine! Whilst at university we used to use aluminium plates for drypoint printmaking from the commercial printers that were below us but nowadays I use <a href="https://www.greatart.co.uk/rhenalon-plates.html" target="_blank">Rhenalon</a> plates which are very thin perspex sheets and as these are transparent I can put an image underneath the plate and use it as a guide while I am working on the plate.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I then wipe the printing plate with newspaper and then tissue paper to remove the surface ink but being really careful to leave the ink within the lines. Caressing the printing plate as my University tutor always used to say!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Clare xx</span></span>ClareSherwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588465559327452638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061023893213421920.post-40701483805069716552019-06-28T16:26:00.000+01:002019-06-28T16:27:37.999+01:00ACEO Tiny Paintings!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have been painting teeny tiny paintings called ACEO's for quite a few years now. ACEO stands for <span style="background-color: white;">Art Cards, Editions and Originals. Basically a tiny painting/drawing/print/etc which must be 3.5 x 2.5 inches, about the size of a playing card, and as I have discovered people love collecting them!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">I find them a very good way of seeing if a larger painting will work as if an image really stands out when tiny it should work on a larger scale. For example the tiny painting of a tiger that I recently did I liked so much I made it into a big acrylic painting.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">I think it has also made me paint a lot freer as its very difficult to get a lot of detail onto a tiny piece of paper and I feel it has really improved my watercolour painting. Also because I'm quite an impatient painter and hate waiting for paint to dry, I find that when I'm doing a large watercolour painting I try and work on about 10 ACEO's at the same time. By the time I have put a layer of paint on every painting the first one will have dried and I can start all over again!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">So far I have sold 401 of these mini paintings with tigers and cats proving the most popular and the majority going to the USA! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Most of my ACEO's I sell on <a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/hattitude0_0/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=" target="_blank">Ebay</a> or <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ClareSherwen?ref=seller-platform-mcnav&section_id=10818976" target="_blank">Etsy</a> and its a really good feeling when people come back for more and have a little collection of my mini artworks!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I knew I would have to produce some artwork of him so I decided to do a quick acrylic painting:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He looked so cute I thought he would work brilliantly as a collagraph print too, here's the start of my printing plate being designed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">About to start printing, not many people get to see the printing plates before they have been inked up and got very messy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here he is after being inked up. I've inked him <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">A la poupée </span>which is a<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"> technique for applying different colours of ink using a ball-shaped wad of fabric to apply the ink </span>which then means I can print the image in just one run through the press. Its a bit fiddly but well worth it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I moved house about 5 weeks ago so I am still unpacking everything but my new studio is starting to come together and I'm really enjoying doing a bit of printmaking again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hopefully lots more new prints coming soon!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Clare xx</span>ClareSherwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588465559327452638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061023893213421920.post-11639432328334144502018-03-11T19:59:00.001+00:002018-03-11T19:59:08.968+00:00Printing a Hippo in 3 Colours<span style="font-size: large;">I love printing hippos!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've done quite a few hippo collagraph prints over the years, in lots of colours, and these have proved very popular. I wanted to do a slightly different hippo print with three colours printed from the one printing plate. I decided to do a hippo swimming (or floating!) so I could use lots of different blues for the water. Here's one of the photos I used for reference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Below is the collagraph printing plate before it is has any ink applied. The image is backwards compared to the photo so that when printed it will be the right way round. I use different paints on the cardboard (mountboard) printing plate to get different textures. The yellow is just some cheap acrylic paint with lots of brush marks to create texture! (I use a light colour such as yellow so that I can see it through the inking process to make sure I get ink into every part of the plate.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I deliberately designed the printing plate to be inked in three different places. The top third to be process blue with lots of extender medium to keep it quite light. The middle to be the hippo in purple ink and the bottom third to be printed in my favourite blue prussian blue. Here's the top part of the printing plate with process blue ink applied in a thin layer avoiding getting any on the hippo head.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Next I applied the purple ink. I use a scrunched up kitchen cloth to apply the ink (they are cheap and I usually have loads of them) I twisted a corner of the cloth to apply the ink to the smaller places.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Applying the prussian blue to the bottom of the printing plate for the water. I try and be careful to not go over the areas with the other colours and mix the ink too much but I don't mind if a bit of colour runs into another.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once every part of the printing plate is covered in ink I very carefully blot the plate with newspaper so as not to move the ink around too much and mix the colours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I carry on wiping with newspaper and tissue paper until there is only a fine layer of ink left on the printing plate. Here's the plate below all wiped and ready to go through the printing press.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">The hippo print hot off my etching printing press!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A whole herd of hippos drying!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally, the finished collagraph print!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Here's the hippo print framed and on exhibition recently at Wolverhampton Art Gallery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A very rare photo of me printing and getting very messy on my dining room table in my very, very inky printing hoody!</span><br />
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ClareSherwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588465559327452638noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061023893213421920.post-51995966256020560622018-02-27T17:14:00.000+00:002018-02-27T17:14:04.648+00:00Painting a Sloth<span style="font-size: large;">I love sloths, they are just so odd looking but still very cute! I've seen one in the wild while on holiday in Costa Rica but it was so far away and up a tree it just looked like a vague pile of fur so when I went to Chester Zoo last year I took loads of photos of their two toed sloths and had to paint them! You would think they would be easy to take photos of as they are supposed to be quite slow but these ones were so active a lot of my photos were quite blurry!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My original intention was just to paint one sloth but I enjoyed it so much I got carried away and ended up doing three paintings!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is how I painted them below. They are all painte<span style="font-family: inherit;">d in <span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;">Liquitex Heavy Body acrylic on box canvas.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First of all I hate working on a white canvas so I painted the canvas a neutral grey all over. I wasn't intending to keep the grey background but it worked so well against the colours of the sloth's fur that I kept it in the end. I gridded up the canvas and the photo that I was working from so that I could enlarge the sloth image onto the canvas and now I'm all set to start painting!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I laid in a rough idea of the sloth with a light mix of water and an acrylic colour called parchment, which is great for animal fur, so that I could get an idea of the shape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm beginning to add a few different colours to the sloth building up a few of the dark areas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Adding a few more darks to the fur, I always work by adding paint all over the painting and never working too much in one area. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Gradually building up the paint and adding a few more details. I'm trying to keep the direction of the paint strokes always going in the same direction as the fur so that it looks more realistic and has a sense of movement. Also I like to use a large brush so that I don't get caught up in too much detail and also get some lovely paint strokes showing in the painting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Almost there, just strengthening the lights and darks and adding a tiny bit more detail. I like to have a strong contrast between the lights and darks in my paintings as it makes it more dynamic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The finished painting and the two other sloth paintings I couldn't resist doing too to then make a Sloth Triptych!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I really enjoyed painting these sloths and loved having fun with the paint in their fur, might be tempted to do a few more soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Clare xx</span>ClareSherwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588465559327452638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061023893213421920.post-74618465474949689242017-12-11T20:36:00.000+00:002017-12-11T20:36:50.778+00:00Painting a Steampunk Tabby Cat<span style="font-size: large;">I had a bit of time to kill on Tuesday morning while waiting for the chimney sweep to come round so I thought I'd start a couple of new Steampunk inspired animals in hats acrylic paintings!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Its been a while since I did a new cat in hat painting so I thought I'd try a tabby cat in a leather flying hat and goggles, I've done a black and white cat and also a tiger in a flying hat and these have proved to be very popular!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I decided to take a few photos of my step by step painting so you can see behind the scenes of how I paint!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is the very start, I manipulate the image in Photoshop and have added a hat to the tabby cat (I don't really force any animals to wear hats, its all done digitally!) Here's my canvas at the very beginning - I hate working on a white canvas/paper so always paint the canvas first. For my cats I find red seems to work the best as a background colour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also always start with the eyes as I think if the eyes don't look right the painting will never work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I try to cover as much of the canvas as I can working on every part blocking in the basic colours. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am gradually building up layers and refining areas. Again I like to get the eyes to be very clear and often exaggerate them slightly to make the face look cuter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He is starting to come together. You can see the cat is a lot more refined than the hat at the moment. The hats and goggles are usually the last things I work on. Also you can spot my palette is an icecream tub lid, it keeps the paint wet for a bit longer and doesn't need cleaning off when I have finished!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just about finished! I've added touches of gold paint to the goggles and a bit more detail all over. I love painting goggles and adding all the reflections in the metal!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/578986949/steampunk-tabby-cat-original-art-acrylic?ref=listing-shop-header-1" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Flying Tabby Acrylic Painting</span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here he is all finished and ready to go off on a new adventure!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Clare xx</span>ClareSherwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588465559327452638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061023893213421920.post-15514977820025875872017-11-09T19:03:00.001+00:002017-11-09T19:04:31.923+00:00Steampunk Boot Wings<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I went to the Asylum Steampunk Festival in Lincoln for the first time this year and had an amazing time (the biggest and longest running Steampunk Festival in the solar system!) I had heard lots of stories about the steep hill, cobbles and just lots and lots of walking over the course of the long weekend so I treated myself to some very practical boots with a comfort sole and memory foam. I loved my boots but thought there was just something missing so I decided to have a go at making some wings for them so that I could try and fly up that steep hill instead!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had lots of wool fleece left over from making some cushions so decided to use that, also it is really thick and holds it shape well but very easy to sew too. I get my fleece from a local community scrap store called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SCARFWOLVERHAMPTON/" target="_blank">SCARF</a> which is like an Aladdins Cave of fabric, paint etc perfect for making steampunk items. I found some lovely brass eyelets on Ebay and decided to have a go at making.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's the first outing for my new wings with the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/112830022111733/" target="_blank">West Midlands Steampunk Assembly</a> at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens over the summer:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I loved them so much that I decided I had to make some to sell too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can just spot some of my wings that I smuggled in under my cloak to sell at the <a href="https://www.asylumsteampunk.co.uk/the-illicit-market/" target="_blank">Illicit Market </a>at the Asylum!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's a quick look behind the scenes of the making of my recent boot wings:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A few wings all sewn and ready to be painted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Painting a few highlights on the wings, I love my metallic gold and copper paints!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Adding my eyelets - I use a spare brick in the garden as a mini anvil!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lots of finished wings ready to be bagged for sale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They have been selling really well so I decided to make a few more and lots of the new ones will be available at my next Steampunk Event - </span><a href="https://spacecentre.co.uk/event/steampunks-in-space/" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Steampunks in Space</a><span style="font-size: large;"> at the Leicester Space Centre, 25 - 26th November.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've also added a pair of wings to my bag below, I'm thinking of adding some to my hat too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm hoping that the more wings I add I should really be able to fly soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Clare xx</span>ClareSherwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588465559327452638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061023893213421920.post-12720096570961905552017-10-24T16:46:00.001+01:002017-10-24T16:51:22.685+01:00Printmaking on my Dining Room Table!<span style="font-size: large;">When I put one of my prints online I always say "printed on my dining room table". Here's a little tour of where I produce my prints: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My etching press takes pride of place on my dining room table, we normally have to eat around it if we want to use the table for its proper use! The printing press (which is a bit heavy!) is only moved once a year at Christmas so I can decorate the table and have a proper festive meal!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's my lovely press, <span class="style6">its a bit battered now and well used but still prints great. I mostly do collagraphs and the occasional linocut print on it and it is perfect for up to A3 size paper. I would love a slightly bigger one but haven't the money or space at the moment.Yes there is a Dalek cookie jar which lives behind it and threatens to Exterminate me if I don't behave!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="style6">Here's one of Hippo collagraph prints hot off the printing press!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="style6">And the stunning Temple of Concordia in Sicily.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="style6">Because I print from my dining room table I wanted to use non-toxic inks as I didn't want to have the smell and mess of cleaning everything up with white spirit (especially as I usually get ink all over me, the light switches, door handles etc!) I started using the Caligo Safewash etching inks which are oil based but can be cleaned up really easily with water while they are still wet, which is perfect for working from home. This is a photo of some of my very messy inks!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="style6"> Other parts of my house are used in the printmaking process! My bath is used to soak the paper slightly before printing and I have a pile of old towels to blot the paper!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The spare room bed makes a convenient "drying rack" for my prints and can often be found covered in hippos, cats etc!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> My other work space is the spare room which has a desk for painting, sewing etc and has to be hastily packed away when anyone comes over to stay!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I always take my photos in the garden to make the most of the natural light. The garden table is handy for taking photos - here's my elephant collagraph printing plates before they have been inked and printed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have a marble fireplace in the living room which gives a good backdrop for some of my listing photos, I have to clear everything off the mantle piece first though! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Hope you enjoyed a behind the scenes look at my printmaking and home "studio"!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="style6"><br /></span></span>ClareSherwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588465559327452638noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061023893213421920.post-37520192654279381022017-08-12T16:07:00.000+01:002017-08-12T16:07:04.940+01:00How to Steampunk a Giraffe!<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Last year I went to Florida and had the most unforgettable experience of hand feeding a very friendly giraffe at Busch Gardens. I got so many amazing photos and knew that I would have to do a lot of giraffe artwork when I got back home!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> I decided I would have to paint a Steampunk giraffe to go with the rest of my animals in Steampunk hats series of paintings and started thinking about what hat would look best on a giraffe!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">I decided he would have to be an explorer and after seeing my partners very nice new pith helmet, above, at the last </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/112830022111733/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">West Midlands Steampunk Assembly's</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> very fun expedition to hunt dinosaurs at the Botanical Gardens in Birmingham in June, I knew the giraffe would look great in a pith helmet and goggles!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">A lot of people ask me how I get the animals to wear the hats in my artworks, I don't think many of them would be too happy with me dressing them up so I do use a little bit of photoshop magic before I start the artwork. I prefer to work from real hats as I can get more detail, to control the lighting and also sometimes wear them while painting so I an see what it looks like on! So I borrowed the pith helmet and took a few photos from various angles. I then put these into photoshop and added the pith helmet to one of my photos of the giraffe.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Here is what he looks like and what I work from while I am doing the painting. It is very roughly photoshopped (and excuse my thumb!) but I only need a rough idea and can alter things as I paint.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">And here he is, the finished painting! I think he looks very cute in his pith helmet and goggles!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">I also made him into a greeting card to go with my many cards depicting my animals in Steampunk hats! </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">I'm sure there will be a few more Steampunk inspired giraffe paintings coming soon and there may be a few more animals wearing pith helmets as they are great fun to paint!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"></span>ClareSherwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588465559327452638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061023893213421920.post-30363746264358224332017-07-06T16:48:00.000+01:002017-07-06T16:48:14.940+01:00Mini Elephant Collagraph Prints<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am quite fascinated with elephants and a lot of my artwork features them! When I spotted this family group at Chester Zoo recently I couldn't resist doing some prints of them and I'm having fun at the moment with tiny 10 x 10cm collagraph prints so I just had to do a little elephant series of prints!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Collagraph print: Print created from a card plate made by adding glue, paint, enamel etc. This holds the ink in varying degrees and is then printed through the intaglio process. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is what my printing plates look like before printing, I always work from dark to light and all the images are backwards too so It's not an easy process!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Applying ink all over the printing plate, this is sepia ink but can look really dark before printing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wiping the ink off the plate, and getting very messy too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Printing plates all wiped and ready to print. The printing plate holds the ink in crevices and rough parts of the plate and the lighter parts are smoother so the ink is wiped off to print the whiter areas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elephants hot off the printing press! I have a small etching press which lives on my dining room table everyday except for Christmas day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are the finished prints all framed and ready to go to their new homes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Might be tempted to do a few more elephants very soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Clare xx</span>ClareSherwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588465559327452638noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061023893213421920.post-59688484604262696942017-02-11T13:01:00.000+00:002017-02-11T13:01:08.949+00:00Painting a Steampunk Cat<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love painting my Cats in Hats acrylic paintings and they have proved very, very popular! I thought I'd show you behind the scenes of one of my most recent acrylic paintings "Titfer Kitty".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Here is the model for this painting posing with his best friend my next door neighbour's black and white cat Billy! They are always together and follow each other everywhere. I don't know his name yet as I'm still trying to work out where he lives but he is always in my garden searching for Billy to come out and play with him and I couldn't resist painting him as he is quite scruffy but still has a lovely face.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I decided to take one of my many photos of him and messed about with him on Photoshop putting various hats on him until I decided he just looked so right in a very dapper top hat and goggles!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hate working on a white canvas so always try to get rid of the white as soon as I can. I thought he would work well on a red background. Here it is on my easel with a very rough pencil drawing to work from.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The next step I block in as much of the image as I can, keeping it very simple. He has a very cute smile here!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A few more layers and details added and he is starting to come together. A bit more work on the hat and goggles and then always the final touch of adding the whiskers!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The finished painting. The painting is resting on our barbecue as I find it has an interesting background for these paintings and I always try to take the photos in lots of natural light for the best effect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> He also now features on a greeting card and should be in my new calendar that I produce every year around September time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>ClareSherwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588465559327452638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061023893213421920.post-22310297542032036012016-11-27T16:32:00.001+00:002016-11-27T16:38:27.048+00:00Purple Hippo Collagraph Prints<span style="font-size: large;">Earlier this year we went on holiday to Orlando, Florida and visited Busch Gardens Zoo. I spent a very enjoyable time watching a very cute hippo and managed to fill my camera's memory card with all the videos and photos I took! Here's me posing in front of the hippo!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I decided I just had to produce some artwork based on the photos of the hippo and did a quick watercolour of him:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> And couldn't resist putting him into a top hat and goggles:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I took lots of photos of the hippo swimming and he looked so content and happy in this one I just had to make this one into a collagraph print and decided on making some tiny prints only 10 x 10cm:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the collagraph printing plate just being covered in prussian blue ink. (The image is reversed on the printing plate).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The printing plate fully wiped and ready to go into the printing press.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The finished print just off the press!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I loved this one so much that I decided I must do a couple more prints of the hippo swimming. Here's three of the printing plates inked up and ready to be printed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And the finished collagraph prints with a touch of purple watercolour paint added to bring out the hippos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> They look really good framed too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love these so much I might have to do a few more collagraph prints of hippos very soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />ClareSherwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588465559327452638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061023893213421920.post-77323672302717742912016-03-28T16:11:00.001+01:002016-03-28T16:11:28.742+01:00Purple Steampunk Elephants!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today I decided to have a look at some of my older collagraph printing plates and do a bit of experimentation with them in different colourways. I really like my Steampunk Elephant printing plate with its cogs etc as it was great fun to design and make. I only ever printed it in a gunmetal grey so wondered what it would look like in my favourite printing ink purple!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is the printing plate just starting to be covered in a lovely rich purple ink!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The printing plate all covered in purpleness and being wiped to uncover the elephant beneath!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> On the etching press ready for the exciting part the printing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hot off the press - a Purple Steampunk Elephant!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is a sneaky peak at what is going on in the background when I am printing! My printing press is on the dining room table and even when Morpheus the cat is no where to be seen as soon as I start printing he appears to supervise and today to make a nest in my tissue paper!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I think he liked the print although he was a bit upset I wasn't immortalising him in print like I usually do!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The finished Steampunk Elephant collagraph print looking good in purple!</span></div>
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ClareSherwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588465559327452638noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061023893213421920.post-38000605709469162732016-03-06T19:40:00.000+00:002016-03-06T19:41:01.050+00:00Printing a Steampunk Cat<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My Steampunk Cat tote bags have proved to be one of my most popular designs ever and I'd almost sold out of them so I thought I'd better get busy printing a few more this weekend! I took a few photos of the process too so that you can see how and where they are printed, the model himself was too tired to pose for any photos though and was fast asleep in his radiator bed!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the printing plate made from a piece of lino so that anything carved away will stay white and anything left will print black or in this case raw umber.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My ink rolled out and ready to go! I use the Caligo safewash inks as they are very good on fabric and really easy to clean away with soap and water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My first mini tote bag hot off the printing press! The linocut printing plate is placed on the press on some waste paper and the bag is placed on top of this. The blanket covers everything and I roll the whole lot through the etching press on a light setting so that nothing moves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A turquoise blue bag coming off the press.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And a red one!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's a comparison of the printing plate with the finished print on the bag. Note the image is always reversed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is one of the larger tote bags coming off the press. These are slightly more difficult to print as they are bigger than the actual printing press so have to folded very carefully so they don't get trapped under the rollers!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And this is where all the magic happens - the corner of my dining room table! Complete with Dalek cookie jar, bottles of wine etc! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A few of the finished tote bags all drying on my improvised drying rack otherwise known as my spare room bed! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A very fun afternoon of printing a Steampunk Cat!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Clare xx</span>ClareSherwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588465559327452638noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061023893213421920.post-5964813528757629992016-02-17T08:56:00.002+00:002016-02-17T08:56:53.304+00:00Printing a Tiger!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just after the New Year I was feeling very sorry for myself, full of cold and didn't know what to do for my next project when one of my oil paintings from last year caught my eye. Tiger Tiger was something I painted to play around with my oil paints so was very loose and fun, I wondered if I would be able to produce a collagraph print of this image keeping some of that loose element.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's my collagraph printing plate made from a piece of mountboard with textures added, I wanted the image to be quite loose and painterley to keep the essence of the painting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The plate about to be inked in a very tiny space cleared on my dining room table!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The inking messyness begins! I use the Caligo Safewash etching inks as I like to be able to clean everything up with water afterwards and no smelly turps!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The printing plate completely covered in ink and just starting to wipe the ink off again to reveal the tiger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The printing plate is all wiped and ready to print but I wanted to add a touch of colour. The areas where I don't want the colour to be are masked off. This is done with clear plastic which sadly you can't see very well in the photo. I then add the ink "a la poupee" - basically with a tightly scrunched up piece of cloth dabbed onto the plate in certain areas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is my very technical water soaking area - usually known as my bath!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And my paper blotting area - the bathroom floor and a towel!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The moment of truth after the dampened paper and printing plate is put through the printing press, always an exciting and tense moment!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The finished Tiger print, not 100% happy with it but I will live with it for a few days and then decide if any changes need to be made.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the naughty ginger cat that comes and visits us and very often steals my cats food! He had such a cute face that I had to take a photo of him and I couldn't resist using him in a few of my artworks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a quick photoshopped version of him as a pirate about to raid my cats food dish, which I used as a template to paint him from.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I then decided to paint him as one my Cats in Hats series of square acrylic paintings. Here he is with my tuxedo cat Morpheus in his various costumes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He proved really popular so I had to make him into a greeting card.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/212549144/pirate-ginger-cat-art-steampunk-greeting?ref=shop_home_active_7" target="_blank">Pirate Ginger Cat Greeting Card</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next I decided to make him into a lino print to go with my Steampunk Cat lino print.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://folksy.com/items/5956311-Happy-Cat-Open-Edition-Hand-Pulled-Linocut-Print-" target="_blank">Steampunk Happy Cat Linocut Print</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://folksy.com/items/6740426-Pirate-Cat-Open-Edition-Hand-Pulled-Linocut-Print-" target="_blank">Pirate Ginger Cat Linocut Print</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once I had the lino printing plate ready I just had to print up a few Pirate tote bags.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://folksy.com/items/6730161-Pirate-Cat-Tote-Hand-Printed-Mini-Tote-Shopping-Bag" target="_blank">Pirate Ginger Cat Tote Bag</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://folksy.com/items/6739940-Pirate-Cat-Tote-Hand-Printed-Red-Mini-Tote-Shopping-Bag" target="_blank">Pirate Ginger Cat Red Tote Bag</a></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> And of course a cushion!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't know his name but when he nexts visits I will have to give him some commission in the form of some crunchies for giving me so much inspiration!</span><br />
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ClareSherwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12588465559327452638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061023893213421920.post-34545700131784987132015-08-20T11:03:00.001+01:002015-08-20T11:19:47.650+01:00First Ever Collagraph Prints<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I thought I'd dig out and show a few of my very first collagraph prints I ever made!</span></b></span></span></b></span><i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Collagraph Print - Print created from a card plate
made by adding paint, glue, enamel and other textures. This holds the ink in
varying degrees and is printed through the Intaglio process.The more texture on the printing plate the more ink
it will hold and the darker the image will print. The smoother the surface of
the plate it will hold less ink and therefore print whiter.</span></b></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">My first ever collagraph prints were made a bit differently to what I am doing now. I was first introduced to the technique in 1992 by a visiting art tutor at my college. We did a whole project which started off with going out and photographing rooftops around the town for some strange reason! We then developed the black and white film in the dark room and printed off some photos to inspire us to collage together an image to then make the printing plates.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Heres my first ever collagraph printing plate, its a bit battered! It is made from mountboard which is cut into, has sandpaper stuck onto it for the really dark tones and sellotape for the lighter tones. Very fiddly but fun to make! </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Heres one of the prints from the plate. Not bad for a first attempt! </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I then decided to focus a bit more on the parts that I had liked from the first print - the roof with the missing tiles, the chimneys and the brick work. Again this was made with mountboard, sellotape and tiny pieces of masking tape cut out for the bricks!</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> The finished print. Sadly I only have this one as the college liked them so much they kept the best ones! This also has a cyantotype print behind it of one of the rooftops.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Another collagraph print completed while at college. I did this as a series of four prints with the trees gradually growing up the building and engulfing it.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Which bears a striking similarity to a collagraph print I did only a few years ago which shows I still love my windows, doors and columns! </span></b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://folksy.com/items/3499933-Ruined-Forecourt-Limited-Edition-Hand-Pulled-Collagraph-Print-Witley-Court" target="_blank">Ruined Forecourt collagraph print</a></span></b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> Was really interesting seeing how different and also how alike my older collagraph prints are to the ones I do now, I'm so glad I learned all about them many years ago! </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> Clare xx </span></b></span><br />
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