more prints

It's been a quick week, and I am already screen printing again. This time I went prepared with 4 identical templates, and lots of ideas about how wonderfully they would all turn out. GRRRRRR! It's so difficult to get what you have in your head onto paper/material. I understand how my own students feel. Time races by and as soon as you get going it's time to pack away.
I was trying to do fiddly prints and the more successful ones in the class were BIG and BOLD. I hope I remember this for next week and meanwhile I'm going to take inspiration from these!

screen printing

I have started a course in screen printing. I want to dedicate time to getting some new pattern ideas. You can't get that much done in 3 hours, and I am just getting to grips with my positives and negatives and how they will look on paper. These are my first attempts! I want to move away from some of the patterns which I already do on my ceramics, but find that I am clinging on to them.

This print was getting quite interesting at the top, but managed to splat the print below with the screen full of ink.

shot glasses

I have been having a BIG tidy up. It has taken about 5 days to do, and I'm still not finished, and I'm wondering whether it was really worth spending 5 days of my time doing this. However I have found some treasures when clearing the attic. The best one is the collection of shot glasses. I lovingly took them out of the box to photograph, and now I'm not sure what to do with them, so I've put them back!

christmas book no. 1

It was a pattern-tastic Christmas this year, and I got some lovely books.


This one was on my Amazon wish list as I like the work of Amy Butler so much. This book is about her work , but you also get to see her house and studio which is just as interesting.

It has inspired me to heave the sewing machine out of the attic and make a patchwork quilt. Better phone my Mum up first and see how you do it.