Sketchbook ideas

Water, Paper, Paint by Heather Smith Jones

More printing materials...

• Kitchen roll & toilet roll
• Thread! For the wood grain
• Styrofoam... Plain and marked.

Try monotype (page 109)

Use contact paper to mask areas (page 83)

Grain

I've taken some rubbings of the platform. And I wanted to explore the lines of the wood grain further.

 

A simple back stitch would be effective here.

 

I also experimented with masking fluid...

 

I think I'd like to explore this further... Maybe take more time to apply the masking fluid more finely.

 

Grass 2

Bubble wrap prints with thick paint...

 

Great texture! Need to take some rubbings of these!

Printing 1

 

Took some time to make some small stamps of the screw heads and printed some papers using them and black ink...

The one on the left is blu tac pressed into a raised screw head. The one on the right is cut from an eraser.

 

Blu Tac - the holes from screw driver did not print clearly, just the centre point printed. An interesting print but no connection with the original surface despite the stamp being an actual screw head impression.

 

carved eraser - love this one, especially the texture from the combined smooth eraser and the spongy ink pad. A more abstract representation of a screw head.

For both prints I really like the bold graphic pattern and the variation in ink intensity

I'm going to doodle around this...

 

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Rubbings 3 and some ideas to explore

 

Continuing exploration through taking rubbings... Of the knots in the wood grain. Started to think about mark making with stitches.

 

Some ideas to explore... How to make marks, both on paper and fabric and in stitch.

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