Watercolour & ink on BFK

This weekend, Saturday and Sunday, February 25 and 26 from 1 – 5 pm both days I am hosting an Open Studio Show & Sale.  The original of the above watercolour piece, which is 7″ X 5″ on BFK Rives paper, will be for sale and also available as a card - perfect for that special person you’d like to acknowledge!  I will have 12 card images available as well as bundles of handmade thank you cards and hand-pulled monoprints, chine colle prints, digital prints, and paintings will also be on sale.  My home will be transformed into an art gallery!

The multi-media printmaking project I worked on last year, Oh! What a Life! will also be on display again for those that missed the first showing in December at Ground Zero Printmakers (see their link on the sidebar).

I know there is a lot going on in Victoria this weekend so I would be so grateful if you could attend this weekend’s event (before you sit down to watch the Oscars!)

Stencil printing at Ceceila Press

In my last post I mentioned that I was on my way over to Cecelia Press printmaking studio.  Above is one of the prints I created using stencils and Aqua Wash inks.  I’m having fun moving the stencils around the page and adding more colours to other prints.  These colours remind me of the popsicles I would buy at the corner store as a child.  Lorraine said they look delicious! 

Close-up of stencil print

Here’s a close-up of the print in the top photo.  I cut the stencils from photographic paper and used a hole punch for the circles and cut the other shapes with an x-acto knife then rolled the ink on with a brayer.  The Aqua Wash inks are new to me so it’s taking a bit of time to get used to them.  I’d like to try them on my zinc and copper plates and see what kind of results I get as opposed to the oil-based inks I have used.  Okay, gotta go … back over to Cecelia Press for more printmaking fun!