Two ink sketches at Amsterdam’s Hortus Botanicus today.
Cyanotype painting
Another cyanotype experiment. This time I tried painting something with the cyanotype solution itself.
On the first version, the plant faded to a grey-blue over a few days. Maybe it wasn’t out in the sun long enough. But the two dark blue ones look better—they each got a ton of sun.
Alan Partridge
Alan Partridge—a cyanotype experiment.
What I did was cut out various Alan Partridge shapes. The hair, jacket and tie use tracing paper, and the face and shirt are from thick (300g) paper. Over the hair shape I put some extra slices of paper, and on the glass that holds the whole thing down, I drew lines in the hair, the edge of the lapels, and over the tie.
The thick paper blocks almost all the light, but some gets through with the tracing paper, so you can build up tones in the image. On the best version, I then drew in Alan’s facial features with gel pen, biro and pencil.
Based on a screenshot from ‘This Time with Alan Partridge’.
Plant drawing
Somewhere in Sexbierum
Drypoint etching of somewhere near me. Somewhere in Sexbierum—all expertly printed by @creepyfreaky_studio. I tried doing one, but obviously just ballsed it up completely.
Analogue vs digital experiment
Two 10 minute self-portraits in the mirror. Top one: A3 paper with blue pencil. Bottom one: A3 file at 300dpi with default PS brush + Wacom tablet
Self-portrait in blue pencil
Een beetje meer van Harlingen Noord
Tim Freke
Portrait of Tim Freke.
“Here we are. This is happening to us. We’re heading to death. We now know we’re living in an enormous universe which is extremely old. What do you make of it? What do you think this is? And what do you think we should do with it?”
This one is drawn in ballpoint pen (2 types), gel pen and isopropanol. This time though, I squeezed the ink out of the pen with a pair of pliers, and painted with it direct on the paper, mixed with a bit of isopropanol. You don’t need much.
Dreaming I was sleeping
“I was thinkin’ about the things that Rosie said.
I was dreaming I was sleeping in Rosie’s bed.”
Another experiment using ballpoint pen and alcohol (isopropanol) sprayed here and there.