sometime

made in 2011?..various pages from my collage/embossed book... reusing the transfer tracing paper images of old prints. just going through images for a website & came across these...now feel like doing some black paper cuts

...wherever you are....close your eyes

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book play

Malay Upside Down & Map Making (Print & collage)

Wherever you are .Close your eyes (Etching/collage)

...playing around with these book things again... collage of printmaking & other drawings...im not interested in making anything in editions or to craft a type/style of book...just the freedom to do do stuff intuitively..
You can see these & other fab stuff at the latest local print club members show at the  BIA gallery here in Brisbane.

closer

Making Books

It feels as though it has been a long & short week ..Easter celebrations & a lot of real home time which as it turns out was very relaxing. Moving on to ANZAC day http://www.awm.gov.au/commemoration/anzac/anzac-tradition/#dawn  & something i observe within a distance & some puzzlement.  I attempted to make books, did several drawings & actually threw out a few old print mishaps that i was keeping to do something with. That made me a bit uneasy; i just don't like to waste the paper. I let it go only because i seem to have accumulated more than i need. I did find a few remnants that could be saved & turned into books so we shall see the results soon i hope.
I also received the catalogues from Hong Kong containing the biggest catalogues I've seen this year. This was an exhibition in which i collected all the Impress Printmakers Studio prints included in the Graphic Arts Festival Convergence/Divergence.The open-printshop has details in their newsletter

...books beyond words

East Gippsland Art Gallery  organisers of  the BBW competition are eagerly awaiting your entries...time to create artists' books & such like... Read the conditions of entry & good luck.

delft blue

It began with this..I have been drawing on & off..simply as a transferal medium to arrange & apply images onto plates for printing escapades but currently i find it has become a deeply satisfying thing to do. I enjoy the quietude & simplicity of it, thats a certainty. More importantly it is that it remains very surpising, an element i love about printmaking.. This is the first book i made with assistance from silent parrot press & im pleased that it worked as i seem to have to practice things lots of times before it materialises into something...The book has no covers with the stitching exposed...My photos are awful..my camera has started...

little by little

...a few images from concertina books that ill be showing at IMpressions 5..opening fri April 9...