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Auction and experiment
I've sent off my square for the SAQA Benefit Auction - Just dancin'. It is part of a design which derived from the envelope in which my Surface Design magazine used to come. It used to be covered - yes, covered in bright stamps from Hong Kong, direct from the printer. The design shows how I felt when such envelopes arrived.
Meanwhile I am juggling blocks of time and mind between printmaking and stitching. The areas are further broadened by my initial small researches into the world of tapestry weaving. I have just read a beautiful book published by the excellent Black Dog (I have recently read The mechanical hand, a printmaking title)- Tapestry: a woven narrative. (I was delighted to find a splendid offer for the book in the current issue of Embroidery magazine.) This is another area of textiles I've been interested in for some years, and now I have the time to explore. But I shall be spending more time stitching during the day as the tennis season is in full flow - no need to feel guilty while watching tv in daytime!
In printmaking I have been devoting this half term at least to exploring more painterly ways of creating marks. The above image is another early example with blocks of Liquitex sand medium on one perspex sheet, and a drypoint line on another plate with chine colle using printed tissue paper from Paperchase.
I have also been mixing carborundum grains with PVA and with Liquitex heavy body in four alternative mixes, and have painted each mix onto perspex. I shall print those perspex plates tomorrow, and will let you see the results next week. Nothing is instant in printmaking!
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8 comments:
How joyful and what a good use of the stamps - I tear them off the envelopes and save them , for what I don't know.
Enjoying the tales for your print making.
tapestry is a grand direction, yes. i love the second image.
I too love stamps and used to collect with my brother when we were young. Now they just end up in a box, thinking some day of putting them into an album or giving them to a collector. I miss them now that post offices often just put a label on instead.
Sounds like you are continuing to do very interesting explorations and pulling different media together. That printmaking book sounds like some that come from a printmaking studio and publisher called Crown Point Press in California. I have a couple of their books, and you might find some that interest you, being such a book-a-holic!
Thanks Mags. I too have lots of stamps waiting for inspiration, but these came in a beautifully decorated celebration envelope as well.
Jude, I'm not sure that tapestry is a direction for going in for me, but it certainly has been one I look towards from time to time. I'm glad you like the second image - I'm having a little difficulty with it at present, but I like it enough to persist.
Marja-Leena, I do agree about lovely stamps, and regret that I receive so few letters these days because of emails and blogging.
You are right about the Mechanical Hand book - it is from Paupers Press. I have known about Crown Point Press for some time - I bought a Diebenkorn book of theirs for a friend of mine. You are so right about me being a book-aholic!!
just dancing is so full of energy and movement! wonderful!
it's been so long since i've delved into printmaking and tapestry weaving barely a memory anymore. *sigh* so many joyous things to play with and explore and so little time!!
enjoy your adventures!
Hello Joe, and thanks.
Yes, there is indeed so little time, and so many fascinating things to find out and some even to try.
Love the auction piece.maybe because I am so focused on hand quilting right now.
I love what you are doing with prints and stitching combined Olga. The line works is very expressive. I may have to bid on that SAQA square!
Paula Kovarik
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