It’s part of the process that I try out something on my own that has worked in the studio. It’s part of the process that I reflect on what I have done – though that rarely appears online like this.
This looks like a sound plan. I create a background mono print, print onto this my background trees/foreground in walnut brown and pagnes grey, then add the tree that is the focus on the third run.
Instead I make a lot of mess. I have one spatula for mixing my limited range of colours, my largest roller is only 9cm and I’m hand printing with a baren made up of ball bearings.
The result is less than satisfactory. In the studio I have access to colours, palette knives and rollers galore … a printing press and most importantly the artist and teacher Helen Brown. I’m not about to invest £250’in a roller as I’d need another £250-£500 on a press. Instead I’ll book myself into Bip-Art and if I do anything it will be more individual backgrounds in watercolour.
Which gives variations on the above.
This block is also going to get its final cut. I’ve not been able to indicate the sunlight coming in from the left, or hint at wood anemones in the foreground. Then I either cut this all again as a negative print or move on … the plan is for one of the ancient trees of Markstakes Common per month.
Next up is the ancient oak, either the spectacular oak on the edge of the northern common (tree 13) or it’s more mangled partner on the corner of the same ‘glade’ ancient oak (tree 14).
Onwards
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