I’m not going to treat you to descriptions, I got sick, last in our little family. Prior to this the week had been pretty full on from the mummy angle,nevertheless I have been drawing and researching the possibility of printmaking in Victoria. The print studio I have found looks pretty good:
Ground Zero Printmakers
So it’s finding the cost in my monthly budget of time and money. I would need to get to Victoria on my own for at least four hours of working time, plus the travel of one hour each way…my husband’s job is too hectic currently to fit it in, two kids under 5. We spoke about it and I hope to get there later in the year. No drama.
So I am on Pinterest: www.Pinterest.com/k8leebarton
and I have been looking at alternative printmaking options at home. I have used printmaking to generate ideas and work back into the organic hand away from the digital photo since my time at art school way back in 2002..
I think I am going to try Geli printing. I have the equipment. I already have some linocut tools and will explore this too. But for now… I’m getting better..
I will share progress.
I’m planning a media purge some time before I start painting in an effort to keep a clean visual mindscape as it were. But I think the printmaking needs the external “pressure”of documentation online. I confess the set up and time around it is what has kept my process so simple in the last three years. That being:
1.Photography
2.Drawings
3.Watercolors
4. Acrylic paintings…and on cyclically with more than one canvas on the go at a time.
But I’m not really progressing in the way I would like. I need to push the work to a new space and further develop a mark making connection with this landscape. I was completely connected in the UK having inhabited the landscape of Faversham Kent for quite a while and having generated lots of work unfettered by financial and time constraints in the same way that I am now. My teaching practice supporting my creativity allowed me not to feel the pressure of the audience and sales…
I fear this post has been sullied by the mood I am in due to the family’s health
and mine….So I shall sign off. I’m getting there. Not mark making each day either…good for breaking new ground. I may start an Instagram journal on that too…
http://www.Instagram.com/sookish.
Not enough hyperlinks… Working on my cell from bed rest… Not firing on all cylinders, sure you will forgive.
Have a good week!
Kate
Kate Barton 