WOODFIRING AT TARADALE NAPIER

I had a super four hours stoking the fire along with Virginia, It was lit on friday morning and needs to be stoked every few minutes right through until sunday morning/afternoon, depending on the temperature. Wow a huge task and heaps of wood.

Printmaking March 09

My first attempt at print making ever!

All towards my Diploma of Arts, here at Otago Polytech, it was so much fun, almost addictive. I began my project with a stencil cut out of a school of fish, which soon proved to be too rigid and not going in the direction I wanted so I started tearing the cartridge paper, tearing strips, circles, shapes and used these as the stencils. The torn edges were wonderful as they created a shadowing look. I used the "robbing" method of printing, which involves taking wet ink from an already printed board or print.I presented the prints in a book, 4 x A3 sheets per page. It took many hours to arrange the prints into pages, so they worked. I sometimes added a blank page to rest the eye. These were then bound between cardboard by the local printers.
A great final look ,

ENJOY