Non- rational abstraction: trusting to intuition could give rise to several processes and outcomes. You could let the materials work, and be the amanuensis. You could maybe succeed in not having to think in…

Moon. Topical, symbolic, geometric, poetic, totemic. My plan for my final piece is to create three images relating to the Moon. At the time of posting it is Mid Autumn, or moon festival, and…

For this next project, I wanted to try to create an image of a hand- also inspired by the 19th century photo. I drew my own one, and planned a series of steps: Stop…

The monoprints and drypoint were ok, but it was time to use my new materials, and plan an image using multiple techniques of engraving. I sketched my ideas, and wrote a list to follow,…

At one stride comes the dark.  Well, this topic is all about avoiding that happening, about graduating tones to make the dark creep in, allow light to create form by moulding itself to the…

As I said, I spent a day in the Prado this summer, and felt that I had to use the experience to start thinking about the topic of Chiaroscuro. There is something, to my…

I haven’t completed Assignment 2 yet, although my landscape morphed into abstraction.  I will revisit. Why chiaroscuro? Because printing is all about getting blacks black and whites white. And the interesting thing is how…

Non- rational abstraction: trusting to intuition could give rise to several processes and outcomes. You could let the materials work, and be the amanuensis. You could maybe succeed in not having to think in…

Moon. Topical, symbolic, geometric, poetic, totemic. My plan for my final piece is to create three images relating to the Moon. At the time of posting it is Mid Autumn, or moon festival, and…

For this next project, I wanted to try to create an image of a hand- also inspired by the 19th century photo. I drew my own one, and planned a series of steps: Stop…

The monoprints and drypoint were ok, but it was time to use my new materials, and plan an image using multiple techniques of engraving. I sketched my ideas, and wrote a list to follow,…

At one stride comes the dark.  Well, this topic is all about avoiding that happening, about graduating tones to make the dark creep in, allow light to create form by moulding itself to the…

As I said, I spent a day in the Prado this summer, and felt that I had to use the experience to start thinking about the topic of Chiaroscuro. There is something, to my…

I haven’t completed Assignment 2 yet, although my landscape morphed into abstraction.  I will revisit. Why chiaroscuro? Because printing is all about getting blacks black and whites white. And the interesting thing is how…