Colourful Bubbly Texture

I am not certain what this image is exactly, other than colourful and bubbly, but I like it!

I put this together by mixing a fractal image that I created on Photoshop, with a close-up textural photo of the counter in Coral Reef Restaurant in Epcot (I bet you guess that, huh?).

The pond is filling (relatively) fast. Here is the pond early this morning. It was brimming and teetering on the edge for what seemed forever.

An hour or so later it burst through to my yippies and yahoos. Big moment guys!!

Throughout the rest of the day, the water made it's way down to the lower side of the pond and began wrapping its way around the island.

By late afternoon it reached the pump to the fountain (which we hope is fixed after the squirrels munched on the wires earlier this month).

By evening, we all had allergies sufficiently bad to push us into the studio for shelter.

I just took a couple more sneaky peaks to see how it was coming along.

My last look showed the first reflection of the full moon this year in the pond. Happy times! Now where is the Zyrtec?

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Encaustic Monoprint Technique

Today I visited a printmaking friend's studio. Amy is experimenting with encaustic monoprints. I have never heard of this before so I was excited to have a demo. Here is the basic process: 1. Heat up the homemade heat box. 2. Rub the beeswax pigment sticks on the metal surface of the heat plate to melt them. Create a design on the plate with one or more colors. Step 3. Lay a piece of rice or rag paper face down on the painted design and cover with newsprint. Burnish. Step 4. Carefully pull the paper away from the heat plate. Steps 5-6. Clean the heat plate with paper towels. Add more color to the heat plate and repeat the process to add patterns or more color to the print. The smell of the wax is yummy and the pigments are really thick and rich to work with. I had a little play to get a feel for what the print is like (image below). Now I want to build a heat box and play!!

Peacock Paintings/prints

I'm working on the peacock paintings at the moment and some relief prints. I am slowly filling in the shapes and colors of the paintings, starting from the top and working down with each color. I'm grouping them with my 8 color reduction cut relief print. Also a feather linocut and painting, both in their early stages. The linocuts below are variation experiments based on the imagery above. It still feels like I am a long way to completion, but hopefully they will pull together fast at the detail stage.

DeMeng Workshop

We made crazy vehicles in Michael DeMeng's workshop. Here are a selection of some of the works in progress: Here we had a critique with Michael discussing everyone's progress. I loved this steampunked up critter! This is the cool studio by the harbor that we worked in for four days, pretty cool view! Later in the day we had a project with Tracy and Teesha Moore with a bunch of artists from different workshops.

Cricketts Inky Art Blot

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