Saturday, August 15, 2009

Mark making






Some works in progress. Top pic is embossing of one of my collographs on printmaking paper. Then an indian ink sketch on mixed media base. Followed by the beginning of a life drawing on a mixed media base, and the last picture a drawing in progress and I was drawing flat which is soooo wrong, I'll have to start correcting before i get much further, but it's in charcoal pencil so I can make improvements (trying to draw the main male character of a book I'm writing, he's not a real person... he's in my head).

Spent time today at the studio of my artist friend John. We were talking about process and product and he made a comment, "I'm not making art, I'm making an artist." Found that interesting, because I talked in my last blog entry about the making of the art, the process, as being the art. Probably sounds convoluted. It is.

Anyway, we had got together for our "sunday school". John showed me how to stretch canvas, I've never learned to do it properly. And gave me his secret recipe for making a primer to use instead of gesso. I've never liked gesso on on canvas, though I love using it on paper. Makes a great surface to work on.

I had taken a collograph that I made a while ago, and we experimented, John used his wonderful press to emboss some of my paper that I'd taken to work on my mixed media bases. I'll be thinking of how I might incorporate this process in my work. A clean embossing on white paper looks fantastic but I'm all about layering so will have to come up with an idea that fits.

Still working on adding to the mixed media bases but I'm starting to put marks on some of them.

4 comments:

denise said...

More great and intriguing pieces emerging. I'm loving your backgrounds. They intereact so greatly with your images. I particularly like the last piece, it is already very strong.

Anonymous said...

Sorry that I missed Sunday School. It sounds Wonderful.

Love Barbara

Mary Fox of Fox On The Run said...

I enjoyed your site so much...just beautiful. Thank you for sharing. The article on backgrounds was interesting. Mary

Mary Fox of Fox On The Run said...

I enjoyed your site so much. Just beautiful. Thank you for sharing. The article on backgrounds was interesting. Mary