Welcome to my blog! Started during university to document my journey with lithography in the third year of my degree, I am now beginning to write about my recent work with watercolour, drawings and my annual Christmas cards! I hope you enjoy reading about the enjoyment I get from making art.
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Familiar Faces – My Degree Essay
For the end of my degree alongside my exhibition I wrote an essay about my work, the research, inspiration and method behind everything that led up to how and why I created the pieces I did. I thought I would…
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Reaching the end – Reflections
The portraits are all done and finally I can compile them all onto this blog post. Looking at them all together really is heartwarming as it is really privilege that I have been able to express all the people closest…
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Week Eleven – A final, slightly frantic, week of printing
This was it the last week to print everything that needed to be printed and I managed it. I had three stones left to draw and print, this consisted of a self-portrait I decided to do last minute, one last…
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Week Ten – The remaining backgrounds
The second to last week left of time in the studio, this week was a sunny week, so the walks into the school of art each day looked like the below picture I took early on in the week -…
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Week Nine – The week before easter, printing portraits.
It is the final week before Easter and I still have a lot of printing left to do and preparation for after Easter. I started this week completing the portrait of my Dad. After correcting the disproportions in his face…
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Week Eight – Three new portraits.
After finishing my mum and my brothers portraits I have begun three new ones, two being close friends of mine and the other of my Dad. Now I have already done two portraits I am finding that my technique is…
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The first piece done – trials and experiments with ink.
In my last blog post I mentioned my slight unsuccessful day trying to print the background to the print below but as you can see in the image below I have achieved it this week! It took a long time…
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Week Seven – Another print done and a slightly unsuccessful day of printing.
This week consisted of printing the below image of my brother, a portrait I very much enjoyed drawing, the composition and details of the portrait came together really well. Using a razor to scrape away the crayon I managed to…
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Thoughts and reflections while drawing my portraits
I thought I would take a moment just now to slow down and write about my thoughts and how I reflect on my portraits throughout this whole process as these feelings really displays why I am doing this for my…
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Week Six – A good week of printing.
Week six, almost halfway through the term now so I am having to pick up the pace slightly on my work. Having started the first of my exhibition pieces last week I was hoping to have a full week wherein…
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Week Five – Starting the first of my exhibition pieces and thoughts while drawing these portraits.
This week I started the above work on the first of my exhibition pieces, I decided that alongside my main seven portraits I am doing I am also going to do smaller portraits of family members to broaden my exhibition…
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Week Four – Starting some smaller portraits and decided upon technique.
This week I started working on two smaller portraits as I have decided to go along my central portraits I am going to have some smaller ones of my family, presented a bit like how nineteenth century family portraits would…
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Week Three – Things going wrong, rectifying situations and thoughts about my eventual exhibition.
This week started with me accidentally removing the portrait that I had previously applied to this stone using gum transfer, I used too strong of an etch which wiped the portrait off completely, I thought perhaps maybe some would be…
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Week Two – Gum transfer paper and exhibition planning.
I started off the week, re-graining this stone below as last week when I did it circular scratches appeared in the stone surface, most likely as a result of me managing to get some grit mixed up between changing the…
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Week One of the final semester – The first week back.
It is the start of February and the first week of the semester, I came back into the studio to my two old stones from last year (pictured below), I decided to re-grain both the stones so that I could…
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Reflections on my first semester work
Reaching the end of the year I wanted to do a blog post just looking back at all the work I’ve done this year just to round up the results of my work, my opinions/reflections and where it will lead…
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Week Eleven – Printing my last stone for the year and some colour printing.
It is Monday today and this is the last week of the semester, everything seems to have accumulated to a lot of work that needs to be done. I have four stones finished so far and four different prints that…
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Week Ten – Drawing up my last portraits for this year…
Next week is the last week before Christmas meaning I only have time for this last drawing and then next week will consist of colour printing my previous stone and then printing the stone pictured above. The stone above allowed…
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Week Nine – Making mistakes and a new portrait piece
Starting off this week I finished drawing up a new stone, this time I was more focused on Romanticism influences when doing the portrait. I also wanted to avoid using the tusche wash and instead just use a Korn lithograph…
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Artist research and trying not to stay in my comfort zone.
So far this semester I have drawn up three stones, I have really enjoyed starting to explore the limits of portraiture using lithography as my medium. With these three stones I have predominantly used a touche wash to create the…
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Week Eight – Experimenting printing in colour and starting a new drawing.
After etching my stone last week I was ready to print this week, again I used three different types of paper to continue to see how my prints look and feel like on different paper, these being; Somerset Satin White,…
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Week Seven – Etching my stone.
Last week I finished this stone portrait of my mum, dad and brother, so this week I started the etching process. Now that this is my third time doing this I’m starting to understand the process better. After both etching…
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Week Six – A found direction?
I started off this week ready to print the first stone I sketched up in week three, I bought three different types of paper ready to print on, these being; Somerset Satin White, Hahnemuhle and Rives Tan. Just to see…
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Week Five – The first print!
After finishing etching my stone last week my first thing to get started this week was finally to print. I have only done the printing process once before so it was all pretty new to me but we went through…
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Week Four – Etching my first stones
This weeks blog entry is going to be a longer one as I finished the first two drawings I have been doing as experimentation on my stones, so I have a lot to recap on. The first two pictures below…
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Self-Evaluation
This is a self-evaluation of my previous work last year and also a look towards what I would like to achieve and change this year within my work. Where has my work come from? In second year, I became more…
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Looking Around the Gallery
Today I went downstairs in the School of Art to have a look round the gallery’s as currently being shown are many different prints, I came across two pieces by Francis Rudolph and found these to particularly interest me in…
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Week Three – Beginning to draw
This week I planned after doing some sketches in my sketchbook to start a drawing on stone, just something experimental to get to grips with the materials and techniques, going forward in the next two weeks. This is a quick…
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Week Two – Learning about the process
The process of lithography was one I really enjoyed in second year so with my third year work I have decided to continue using this technique. I had never grained my own lithography stone in preparation to draw on it…
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Week One – Printmaking practice, first thoughts
The first week back into the print studio and thus the first entry into this blog where I will be documenting my process and work this semester and next in the printmaking studios. As an introduction back we just talked…
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