gostly print

New design for screen printing.  I find it hard to get my head around colouring in black what I want to print white. Lots of concentration needed.

 Gost  is taken from my watercolour painting "lonly mountain passs" from last year.

Twist and grow

Some more treespiration today. All these betties are from northern Australia, 

 

 

masking fluid disaster 2

I spent last weekend ruining my latest painting. I had a bad experience with a new type of masking fluid called "Molotow". The stuff comes in a pen and was super easy to apply and I was initially very pleased. You might be able to see the blue dots on the trees. They were supposed to eventually be highlights but the stupid stuff wont come off and now the painting is ruined with blue goo.
The packaging did warn not to leave it on for more than two days but I tried to remove it on the next day and it just smeared. I had a similar thing happen with regular masking fluid once before but in that instance I had left it on for over a week so that was my own fault. Last time I did eventually get the regular masking fluid off by putting the painting in the freezer, but this stuff seems to have partially soaked into the paper, I cant even scratch it off with the edge of my palate knife. I was really likening the colours on this piece too.
 Dam you Molotow.

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Memory Dream Myth

 

Every year or so, the art shop where I work on Saturdays has a group show. This year it was titled "Memory dream myth". I did not get the big painting I was working on for the show finished in time however it was a really fun show to be a part of from start to finish. The opening night was great and three of my works found new homes.

 

My pictures "Lily in Bialowieza" above and "Dragon" below.

 

Ingrids big ceramic garden flower lady.

 

Phthalo haze

New paintings from the last few month. I seem to be lost in a dream vision of phthalo blue, green and purple.

 

 "Birth" acrylic on canvas.

 "Butterfly daze" watercolor on Arches paper.

"ice flowers" watercolor on Fabriano paper.

Bialowieza

I cant quite decide if I'm finished with this watercolor piece or not. I am aware that I still  try to paint with watercolors like I would with acrylics, so I don't  want to overwork it. Maybe a few more delicate touches on the hair and a couple more reflections on the water. This is based on a picture of the Bialowieza forest in Poland. The forest is one of the last remnants of old growth lowland forest left in Europe and one of the places I most want to visit. Once the forest covered most of Europe and was know as the "Hercynian forest" or "Hercynia silva" in Latin, which is the what this blog is named after.

In other news, I have also been screen printing some bags and tshirts. I love the soft misty effects I got by using watery washes of dye. I have some tops already listed on etsy and more are on the way.
 https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/styx2stars

Back to life.

Its been a very long time but it looks like we are back up and running. Thanks for your patience with all these tec problems. So much has happened since I was last able to update on this blog. I think rather than try to recall a whole year I'll just share a couple of new art pictures and turn to the future.
If all goes well I should be posting regularly again from now on. I'm so glad, I really didn't want to give up on this blog, they become like little story books of life that are hard to leave behind.