Do you ever have days when you want to spend the day making art, but just can't nail anything concrete down? This was that kind of day. So I dampened some paper in readiness for lino printing and, in the mean time, made some rubbings in oil pastel of the lino block I'd cut of Penshaw Monument. I messed around with different coloured pastels, and then tried rubbing the sky block, and then the monument block over that. With questionable success. Never mind; they'll make useful starting points for the collages I want to do.
Then, I started scribbling a skyscape on cartridge paper, which then took off and became this mad view of Penshaw Monument. There's not enough contrast for me to be totally happy with it, but I like the layering and inter-mingling of colours and lines. Again, maybe I'll rip it up and turn it into something else.
5 comments:
I like the new look for your blog, very nice
Idon't know what it is, but I think you've achieved something very interesting here. The only bit that jars, or that I don't understand, is the sienna wash mid-right hand side.
Hm... I really like the sky scribbling... I wondered if you could get to something like that with an inked up plate and some monotype markmaking: I used tin foil to take of some ink; or scratch marks with knife, fork or similar...
The monument will work very well in lino - such clear lines. I am curious to see what you'll do with the background!
The yellowish bit was meant to be part of a streaked sky, but u agree it dosn't sit well. I simplified the blog because I wanted to show my work along the top.
Gesa, while I was digging out the lino stuff I came across a pane of glass left over from a picture frame and I was thinking about mono printing but I have no idea where to start.
ink up the plate with your ink. take something, anything, and use it to mark the inked surface: scratch, smear, smudge, lift, add... then pull a print. rarely any rules... playtime... I'm sure you'll like it ;)
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