Reflection on the past
week, 3rd July 2017
I spent a good
deal of time on Monday and Tuesday evenings trying to get the best possible
images of my prints for submission to the “Movement” group Summer show at Left
Bank. In the end I decided to submit unframed images of the prints as I
couldn’t get good enough quality images of the framed versions with the limited
kit and knowledge I have. Notwithstanding this, I learnt a lot and will be
putting this into effect for future submissions. I also polished up the
descriptions of my work.
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| One of my accepted prints! |
Friday wasn’t a
good day as I was laid low with a stomach bug and spent the day in bed. My mood
brightened considerably when I checked my Curator Space account and found that
the prints had been accepted! I was delighted, particularly so as they were
based on an urban wandering which terminated not far from the venue. This is
the first time my prints have been accepted and I very much hope it will be the
shape of things to come.
After some
consideration, I’ve decided to have a second go at the Royal Park etching (see
this week 72 blogpost for details of the first go!). This has had me running
into college on a lunchtime to get plates cut and grounds on and drawing the
design on the plate on Wednesday evening. I manged to get into the print room
for a long afternoon on Thursday and the plate bit pretty well. I’d made an
effort to try to etch just into the ground rather than scratch the plate, which
seemed to have worked. I also took a deep breath and left the plate in the
mordant for a shorter time than normal. These two actions resulted in a finer
line than I’ve previously achieved, which I rather like. I’ve also started an
aquatint test plate as I’m intending to aquatint this new plate next week.
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| Royal Park v2 |
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