Monday 27 February 2012

a few things...

last week was quite cat based (despite the dog postcards)...firstly drawing cats for a new print, lots and lots of them...



then I had to  face the grumpy woman in the post office, sending a couple of cat bags to far away places - very excited that one will soon hit the streets of Brooklyn...



sunday was all about printing the latest stamp print - and let's face it, screenprinting is all about the cleaning...




There will be photos of the cat stamps on the drying rack any day now - ish.

Friday 17 February 2012

philately will get you everywhere part2

so time for more pictures of my large print in progress...now with the bright colours added, which was worrying me a bit as the blues and greys were looking so serene...

I think this is about layer 5, but I have to admit to having lost count!

good to see a pigeon back in my work - they used to feature pretty heavily - this prints got it all...pigeons, cats, dogs, hawks, bears (of course) llamas and a fish...to name but a few.

the gold layer was pretty tough going, as usual and may explain my arm/shoulder ache (which lasted for DAYS - ow!)

finished! 10 layers, or it could be 11...

and continuing my "the glamour of screenprinting" photos here's the all important pile of rubbish under the screen bed shot.

Monday 13 February 2012

Philately will get you everywhere part1

After what feels like weeks of drawing I finally did some printing at the weekend...to celebrate I took lots of photos of all the different stages - whoo hoo (that was the plan but my camera battery ran out on saturday afternoon - always the way, sigh)

Anyhoo, it all starts with this stencil - without it all the colour layers would be total guesswork...(I've tried this - not fun, some penguins ended up with very dodgy beaks)

I don't often print such big prints and to start with I was getting very inky hands - would've taken pictures but had my camera to think about.

3 layers...


4 layers - and a vision of blue loveliness making me a bit scared of the bright bits coming soon.