skill

.......and by the professional photographer........

Finally........

Finally "The Book of Kingdoms" prints are complete, all 15 of them. I have learnt so much doing this, its been a great, frustrating, satisfying project. I'm taking them to be photographed today so that in the new year a poster can be reproduced.

yellow man

The yellow man is gone. He travelled to Guernsey to be exhibited in the JJ Fox exhibition and " a very discerning client" (Guernsey Arts Centres words) bought him. I'm thrilled to bits, although I will miss him, he's had a great year!
I do still have the rest of the series, in different colours, with different titles.
Here we are in the summer at the opening of the Open Studios exhibition.

Christmas card : Crazy Santa

 

 

                                                             Don't freak out! Dance!

Peculiar

One of the words which came up in the theatre workshops was "Peculiar". Jersey is a peculiar of the British Crown and so answers directly to the Crown, not the British Parliament. One thing I love about Jersey is stories, I wanted to include a sea monster as they often appear in tales of the sea and the sea is an intrinsic part of Jersey. So my peculiar monster swims past the peculiar rock (based on a 17th century map), the ship is the Janvrin, a cod trading ship built in Jersey, both are printed on hand made paper and the map is printed on part of a map of Jersey which was found at an auction and donated by a kind friend. My father is horrified that I have been chopping up maps which would otherwise be useful navigational aids!!!

Chine Colle

Experimenting with a bit of chine colle.
Tissue has a slightly glossy surface so the ink takes forever to dry. I will use hand made paper which is much more absorbant for the actual poster production line. Hoping to get most of this job done this week. It is Corbiere lighthouse of course (sorry dont know how to do accents....there should be one on the first e).

The Book of Kingdoms

Finally finished The Book of Kingdoms poster for the Jan-May Arts Centre brochure. I will play around a bit with colour now that I have some time before making another copy for the actual 'advertising the event' poster.