A Sense of Place – a collaborative print project

This is the first image I sent to my partner Allison. Not sure that it was a very good choice. It's produced in PhotoShop and the intention was to produce both a photopolymer and a litho etching from it.

I am working with Patricia Graves. First thoughts and ideas we had were to combine a screenprint of my still life based on my studio space; my 'sense of place', then incorporating one of Patricia's screenprints as her 'sense of place' within my still life image. After careful consideration, we decided it would be too challenging in the limited time we have. We have therefore simplified our idea by working on grounds for the bluebell wood image instead. The grounds contain organic shapes and colours based on foliage and decay surrounding my house in the woods which ties in with Patricia's Bluebell Wood. We have spent two days at my studio in Llandudno this week working together. The first day was a complete disaster due to technical problems. We were using acrylic paint mixed with retarder to create the grounds. The reason for this was the speed of drying coupled with acrylic paint being used over the top in the form of the screenprint. The paint dried too quickly and the chine colle stuck to the plate. The whole lot was thrown away and we left frustrated and fed up. We had more success yesterday using Intaglio Inks and have produced some interesting images.

Caroline Race

Hi this is my first go at 'blogging', but I will try to put on pics.

Well I seem to have managed to put some pics on, had a couple of hiccups though, thought at one point i had put on my entire home album!!!

I am starting to etch a zink plate and my partner (Julie) and I are still discussing our development options

Jane

I'd be interested in seeing the pictures. Could they be used in a mixed media collage or photo shop montage?

don

My collaborative partner and I met up last week to discuss ideas.

Jane's been using paper pulp squeezed in her hand to create sculptural forms. Photographs show them wet are vibrant. The fibres from the pulp stand out, making the images look organic and almost plant like. But now that the pieces have dried out they look dead and withered.

We talked about ideas for each others work, but we haven’t discussed what we could do together yet. No new ideas are forming for me yet and I'm starting to worry.

Julie Dodd