Here are my woodcut on silk Tasmanian devil pelts, set up and ready for assessment. I’ve laid them out on the floor, between some other works I’ve set up. The…
Apologies for the image quality, but I wanted to post about this process and I had no better photos. As you can see, this is a woodcut being printed. The…
Here is the finished solvent transfer and silk work, titledSea Shroud. It is set up on a low plinth. I was thinking of putting it on the floor but decided…
After cutting silk up, printing on it, discarding some pieces and adding some pieces of a different type of silk, I sewed it together with single stitches of pure silk…
An Instagram-posted photo of sea, solvent transferred onto silk habotai. I like the tuft of frayed silk at the edge of the piece of sea.
Peeling the silk-sea off the photocopy-sea.
Here’s my messy workspace, set up next to the press I was printing solvent transfers with. I like the scattered birds on the table. The birds are Short-Tailed Shearwaters, or…
The silk I used for most of the solvent transfers is silk chiffon. It is so light and airy and after cutting it up into pieces to print on, it…
I got a lot out of this process of transferring photocopy onto silk. Laying the delicate silk chiffon over the birds was like laying a shroud over them. It softened…
A couple of Instagram-posted shots.
Here is a piece of acetate, prepared with dish-washing detergent. Watercolour marks were applied to the plate, manipulated by moving the plate and then left to dry. Here are three…
Using tea-tree oil as the releasing agent, I attempted to apply a solvent transfer to a selection of silk fabric samples using the same method used when transferring onto paper.…
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