another great afternoon experimenting in the studio………….

have been really enjoying doing these monoprints with encaustic, last year i saved up and bought myself an etching press, something i have wanted  and needed for a long time, coming across a second hand one seemed impossible as people seemed to keep them , but fortunately i came across one that had been sitting in somebody’s shed for 12 years and had never been used, it was at Perth about a 5 day drive from here, so picking it up wasn’t viable, so across the Nullabor Plain on a train it came and we picked it up from Sydney..Just having it in the studio is great, having the time to experiment with types of my printmaking without having to rush as somebody may also be waiting to use it such was the case whilst studying creative arts at uni, when you know that a class of people also need to use it within a specified time frame experimentation is pretty much out the window….ive always worked with intaglio (etching ) & relief printing but lately the freedom of playing with random one off prints has been great and i find it broadens and pushes the creative flow, i lke this work although it feels a little dark in colour, over the next week im thinking about doing a series of this style and putting them together to for one work….no rain today ,it was so cold and windy yesterday that we actually lit the fire, which is so bizzare for November in Australia..today i’ll get into the garden for a while and plant some more vegies……………….

afternoon in the studio….

have just come in from my studio to make a coffee and warm up a little, has turned out to be a very windy ,cloudy and cold day..inside my studio is like a cocoon though, i can see our linden tree being blown about and rain apon the window, will have to move the windchimes though as they keep hitting the wall…have had another pottery day, i have noticed that i am working alot more lately since i have put big works that i am working on to the side ,and am just happy to experiment any which way and just let the work evolve on its own, this one is a collagraph( still following the lake &reed theme) combined with encaustic…would like to experiment with transferring,still need to find out more about it..anyway will finish for the time being &write more later..want to get some more work done before my little man wakes up from his afternoon sleep………

that invisible feeling………….

        strange day today, i suppose it has been slowly creeping up on me for a few weeks, just that feeling with a family when the balance isn’t right, and as a mother you go through the motions and there is always so much to be done and not enough me time (studio time) how dinner miraculously appears at the table, dishes done, washing, cleaning,shopping running around, everybody wants a part of you, then they all wander off happily to do their own thing, and you are left feeling ,well im not sure of the word to describe it, this post sounds terrible, anyway tomorrow i’ll probably feel better, i suppose the word is melancholy, we all get it at some time or an other……….anyway enough of that did manage a little time in my place of sainty (studio) played with some more monoprint and encaustic,i lke this technique feel as though it could pushed further, maybe tomorrow……….

monoprint/encaustic…reed inspiration

encaustic experiment………

it’s late, all quiet aside from the frogs at the dam and a lone willy wagtail singing its midnight mating call, time for the soul and for my mind to wander from the day, had a great afternoon in the studio, have been experimenting with encaustic very different to my printmaking, such a lush medium, this is my first post here and look forward to random ramblings, art work of mine or just general thoughts to keep here and share…………..