Yesterday I experimented with aquatint at East London Printmakers.
These are three very small plates, about 3 inches by 2 inches. Click to enlarge the picture.
This is my first drypoint attempt.
It’s scratched on an aluminium plate, just over postcard size, and printed using the intaglio process on the press at East London Printmakers. This was on a course led by Damien Grist.
It is based on a street scene in Edinburgh, Causewayside, where there were a number of antique shops. This is a mirror image of the view from an Italian restaurant.
Etching, made at East London Printmakers.
Etching in Charbonnel Doux ink, on copper plate using aquatint.
Printed at East London Printmakers. Thank you to Oscar for the advice on aquatint.
Woodcut, after a statue seen in the British Museum “Sicily Culture and Conquest” exhibition, 24 April 2016. He stood about 12 inches high and dates from 1200AD or so.
This woodcut is done in Shminke Prussian blue AquaLino relief ink, on the marvellous Albion press at East London Printmakers. Fabriano Unica Cream paper from Great Art. Woodcut block 16cm by 11cm from Intaglio Printmaker.
Woodcut is such a great medium. It’s satisfying to cut the wood with the sharp tools. The character of woodcut allows approximation, and fast working. There’s lots that’s not quite right about this image, but I am reluctant to mess around with the blocks. I feel that the woodcut has its own language and I let it be.
Two blocks, postcard size about 6inches by 4inches, printed with Schminke Aqua Liniprint ink using the ancient Albion Press at East London Printmakers.
After an original photograph in the Guardian newspaper 19 December 2015, by David Davies, under the headline:
“Carter’s precision thwarts Saints’ revenge bid”.
Northampton 9
Racing 92 9
The caption to the photograph reads:
“Racing’s Dan Carter attempts to flick a pass out of the back of his hand before Northampton’s Mike Hayward can drag the New Zealander to the ground”
This is a woodcut, inspired by a huge stone sculpture in the Berlin Tiergarten.
The sculpture was made in limestone in 1961 by Pierre Szekely (1923-2001), a Hungarian sculptor. It stands about 7 ft tall and has depth, about a foot thick. Wikipedia gives the name of the sculpture as “Contact”. I don’t know if it is still there. I saw in in 2012, in the snow, and it looked like an amulet, or sacred object. The shape is both anthropomorphic, and other-worldly. I like the fact that it has feet. I find the shape is satisfying. If I had an amulet, it would be shaped like that.
Woodcut with prussian blue Schminke Aqua Linoprinting ink. Size of woodcut, 2 inches by 3 inches, approx. Done yesterday at East London Printmakers.
Soft and hard ground etching on copper plate, done at East London Printmakers. 6″x4″
An etching created and printed at East London Printmakers.
Basis of a New Year card.
Ink on Fabriano paper, just under 12 inches by 6 inches, to fit in a 6inch square envelope when folded.
The white line is sewing cotton, laid on the plate.
Experimental etch at East London Printmakers. The white line is made by a cotton thread laid on the plate.
Jane Sketching 