Calaveras continuum...

Here are etchings I made for casting...the process is on. Busy busy busy....

Calavera Cast aka Tomb Stone

There it is....my fun times with the mock up cast...Images show various applications of materials...ink, gouache, watercolour, graphite, various gold decorative paints plus some carving, scratching and general mish-mash...now it is more clear to me what effect the mediums will bring, what not to do....and the excitement is growing coz all in all...it will look Great!Now...off to producing more....

Calaveras Update..

Here is the first mock up cast...the trained eye can see the principle mistake of a rookie...however that's what the mock up are for. Someone suggested today this looks like a tomb stone and I think I like it. An idea of how to display them starts to blossom too. I think this is really taking the shape I wanted and now I just need to make a series of about 6 different casts and I'll be home. Meanwhile I'll be experimenting with this first cast to see if it can get any better...

Fashion Calaveras II

After a short brake from my 'Death' theme I'm presenting some recent designs. These went quite of a way from being very messy thanks to monoprinting through being cleaned out by photoshop and marvellous masking liquid and arrived at the mixture of both monoprint and flexible methods of cleaning the image. I decided to remove any additional type too leaving just a 'Vogue' header. The plan for these is deep photoetching (probably on zinc) to be cast printed.

Cyanotype

Fashion Calaveras

This is my first monoprint attempt and I'm pleased with the effect, because while I use ready-images the thechnique is not trying to copy it but adds to the pastish effect.

This is just a negative I made coz I could....

 

And another one. I'll try to make this design again as I'm not fully satisfied with the writing.

The last one is just an experiment with a background and more fashion photo design, so it may not have as clear message as previous ones.