Printing – Page 9 – Annwyn Dean

Stepping up a Gear – 25th July 2022

July 25, 2022 annwyndean1

I have had a few weeks of non creative happenings, however I have been thinking and gardening and visiting friends and going out, so it’s been much enjoyed. But I now feel that I am at last getting back into the swing of printing, book making and following a train of thought. The very hot weather turned my brain to pulp!

I feel that I have lots more ideas to explore around Fragments and Alterations, drawing inspiration from my collection of antique fabrics, there are many stories still to delve into and a journey ahead of me.

When I was a student I can remember being told to scale up a design and so that it would led one into abstraction. My usual size of blind prints has been 2cm, but these I printed are 6cm and I am planning that each will be a page. I had made a sketch in my notebook a few weeks ago that had just come to me from the word bundle, something that I hadn’t done before and will involve one page binding. There will be 32 pages and they should together make a block.

I am working with some beautiful Indian cotton rag paper, it is probably over 300 gsm and very white.

Just need for them to dry before the next stage.

Book Making, Printing, Uncategorized

Slowly, slowly – 21st March 2022

March 21, 2022 annwyndean1

This post follows directly on from my last blog, there seems to be a feeling of hovering anxiety that clouds everyday life at the moment, so I am finding comfort in being quiet and slow.

My silver fragments were dry enough to create the books I had planned in my last post, see here. “Precious Fragments I’ has single prints on each page.

‘Precious Fragments II’, has five per page

I printed off my notebook inspired plates and for the moment I have put them aside in order to give the ideas raised by them some more thought. See here

This pheasant was keen to see what I was doing through the studio window, we have male pheasants strutting down the garden from the fields at the top and then going back up via my next door neighbours garden!

Book Making, Exhibitions, General, Printing

Meanwhile – 24th February 2022

February 24, 2022 annwyndean1

Whilst waiting for the silver ink on my last set of prints to dry I considered this piece of C18th green silk damask and the frayed edges of metal threads emerging from the weave. Still thinking about it, ideas are rumbling around my mind, maybe for a while yet. How do I create the unravelling metal threads on my printing plate?

Following on from my last blog I have embossed the recesses for the fragments for a short concertina book with one printed fragment inside and another to hold five fragments.

The fragments have now been placed in position and I have brought them all into the house so that they can dry quicker.

And now I need to make the decisions regarding the covers and the panels to the reverse.

So meanwhile whilst waiting for the prints to dry I returned to my sketchbooks to look at ‘Fragments’ from a different angle.

I worked with the print and the plate from these two notebook pages, not glamorous, but instructive pages. (feel quite brave showing the utility of my precious notebooks which are a cornerstone of my everyday)

I worked out these plates, and a couple more, the longest side is 9cm and they are ready to print.

We, like many parts of the UK have had terrible weather, storms and snow over the past few weeks, which I have found distracting, so to have made some progress is pleasing, especially as Printfest, where I have a stand, is only a few weeks away.