"Chica" digital download available on Etsy!

I just posted a digital download of my illustration, "Chica" to Etsy. So crazy because I actually posted here about it this month 7 years ago when I made the illustration and screenprinted it at a workshop. I don't know why that makes me feel strange! I guess life has just changed so much, that feels like another lifetime and another person in a way.

Pricing these is always hard! People sell downloads of art so cheaply online, I did put this slightly cheaper than the others... I don't think I can bring myself to go cheaper than that!

Prep for lino

This is based on a photo taken by my lovely friend, artist & fellow art teacher, Natasha Edmondson. I'm planning on turning it into a lino triptych print, that was meant to happen this week but I got sidetracked with the Suadela poster. It WILL happen though!

Lino Printing

A series of lino prints created as part of the curriculum studies module in the H.Dip for Art and Design teachers. I used a photoshop painting I did a few years ago (pictured below) as a starting off point. I hadn't done lino since school and I really enjoyed this process, particularly experimenting with cross-hatching to build up tone and depth and printing on different types of paper for different results.

Monoprinting

These are a few monoprints I did as part of the H.Dip course. The two more drawn-looking ones are based on previous drawings i've done (the hair one should be pretty familiar - i've gotten great mileage out of that!). I love the very different line quality that monoprint affords. The slightly scary one was made by taking away ink from the plate using the back of a paintbrush and a piece of bark, a totally alternative way of creating an image and it can have very interesting / different results. It's coming close to the end of semester one now, feeling the pressure!!

Printmaking Pt.2

More printmaking! The top two here are aquatints, great fun! They're from the same plate, you can work into the plate and then work back out using a variety of techniques. They're based on a photo I took in India.

I've also included a photo intaglio print, also based on an India photo, i'm getting great mileage out of that trip!

Print-Making!

Some intaglio printing I did last week, very enjoyable! This print is based on a photo I took in India. This is a shot of the very first "clean" print and the final "dirty" print after the image had been worked up quite a lot.

Le Chat Noir Vintage Fair!

I'm just back from Le Chat Noir's second vintage fair, i'm on such a happy buzz after it! It was a lovely day, I paired up with my friend Sarah to run a stall with prints, badges, screenprinted tees, some hand-drawn shirts, vintage clothes & jewellery. Jill (from Wild Floral Couture) and Leona did a great job organising it.

There were some fab stalls from Turquoise Flamingo, Wild, Mercury goes Retrograde, Rosa Through the Looking Glass, Alice Halliday, Peacock and Ruby, Miss Daisy Blue.... the list runs on! I'm focusing on the Cork stalls here, there were loads of great stalls. It's also really inspiring seeing so many women starting their own businesses, in these times of "no jobs here" they're really making opportunities for themselves. I wonder as well is the massive interest in vintage at the moment anyway related to the global economic collapse? Maybe people are looking for ways to consume less and live more sustainably via recycling. Plus I guess vintage is just gorgeous!

So you can possibly tell i'm in a bit of a gushy mood after what was a really fab day! Here are a few photos from the first Vintage Fair in May and Le Chat Noir photo shoots, can't wait for the next event!!

Screenprinting!

Had such a great weekend at Cork Printmakers. I love screenprinting! So much fun, Marianne Keating is a great teacher as well!

Here's some of what I made, a couple of posters and a stack of tshirts, plus two tote bags. The paper is 700g cartridge, YUM, and check out the deadly gold foil and red puff ink!