I won’t be there in the morning…

I’ve been collecting these eerie photos for ages…there’s someone or “something living” in every pic.  Hope the music goes well with it…I’ve put them together in a video.

A Day at the Print Studio

Hi folks!

Here are some photos which I took last week on the way to and at the printing studio.  Just to give you an idea of the journey an image can take.  It get’s messy…gloves are needed!  ps I’m not going to go into detail about the disastrous “old inky book stain on brand new printing blankets” fiasco…thank god no damage was done but it was a scary 24 hours! Drama!

Katie x

Mixed Results with Photopolymer test plates

Hi there,

As all steps of the process are to be included on this blog, the good, the bad AND the ugly…I’ll share my latest ones with you guys!  Here are some of my photopolymer test prints.

I’ve been trying to get the timing exposure right and there are also lots of other variables to consider.

Each artwork will require slightly different settings.   So far, the first plate I made worked out really well.

Then..the two next were terrible!  They got scrapped and I reclaimed the plates for more testing.

Of the two recent ones I printed today, one of them showed a bit of progress so I think I know what direction to aim for.

Sure it’s a (long!) learning process and it’s fun!

Katie

Preparation images for a new Print/Drawing

I’m aiming to use my photographs (of interiors and exteriors of buildings) as a basis for drawings or to convert them into prints.

As usual, I love layering up images, so the backgrounds (may) be some of the old book pages and covers which I have been collecting.  I’ve done a quick sketch of it on photoshop so you get the idea.  It’s just the two images merged together.  The book pages look great in real life though..you can see the mould and the inscriptions…

We’ll see what they turn out like!

A photo of a drawing of a photo…

I’m interested in the combination of drawing and photography at the moment.  With the images above, I’ve used two of my photos (from my camera phone actually) as the basis for a charcoal sketch.  The original photos are at the top.

Next, I digitally photographed them, experimenting with depth of field and angles.  For the last stage, I changed them around in photoshop.  One of my favourite tools is the Blur tool.  After blurring the charcoal shadows in real life on the paper, I blurred them even further on the computer.  I’m hoping to get a strong, abstract, graphic image that has a sense of the architectural.