February

Red/pink chevlons

Recent drawing - Number series - 4

Recent drawing - Number series - 2

Recent drawing - number series - 1

Recent drawing - Number series - 0

Following my series of drawings of the alphabet, I have decided to do a series of number drawings from 0-9.

Gridded seaweed

Now I have printed over 121 pieces of seaweed, I have enough (and a few extra) to form a grid on the large piece of material I have in the studio. Although I have in no way decided to display them on the sheet on the wall, or indeed on the sheet at all, I wanted to have enough to allow this to be a possibility. I can now test out different forms of display, such as if they were in a column spanning the wall and floor, occupying the space rather  like the role of paper currently does.

Currently they are placed in a grid with no specific reason why one piece is next to the another, other than that they were printed, left to dry, and moved from the print room into the studio at a similar time. Therefore I want to move the pieces around within the grid themselves, forming different relationships between them and seeing the arrangement as a composition.

I also want to try mixing the laser cut seaweed amongst the printed seaweed.

Rather than keeping the seaweed flat as sheets, I could try moulding them into sculptural forms. The sheet of seaweed itself is made of strands of seaweed that have been mushed together to form a sheet, so I could do a similar thing and apply the seaweed as one would with papier mache, using water to stick the pieces together.

Shades of grey

I am continuing to print on pieces of nori, with my intention being to cover a whole sheet with a grid of printed nori. I have no set composition at this stage, but am focusing on individual elements which will later be shifted about in order to create a whole. 

The patterns on the nori vary from piece to piece, sometimes using a range of  shape of stamps on one sheet, and at other times using just one stamp.

In order to add a bit of variety to the prints, I am using a range of light / medium greys. 

The nori grid

I've moved the sheet onto the floor into my old studio next to printmaking, and have created a grid of the nori seaweed that I am going to print on. I will then be able to move the individual nori sheets into the etching room for printing, and then back to the grid once printed on.

I've amassed a collection of sweets that make interesting marks and, along with a couple of bits of foam tubing, will use these to print onto the nori.

Full circle

Grid collages

Gridded, ruled paper

Fitting units into a container