I am loving working with fabric on both the plate and the backgrounds on the paper. There are 6 prints in the edition and they are all varied. (Mother Nature Needs a Cup of Tea) started out with an old beat up aluminium plate with Skylight polymer film laminated unto the plate. Then the FUN …
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Bouncing Ball of Life
Another print for the Here Come the Ladies seris and maybe even part of the Then and Now seris of prints. The woodblock is from a print I made in 1991 titled ˋBaby Faceˋ https://artbank.ca/art-piece/baby-face-92_3-0134?author=Percival%20Debra%20James&name=Baby%20Face&year=1991#f:@category_e=Work%20on%20paper I have moved so often and chucked stuff each time -I was surprized I still had this woodblock. Now the fun …
Spirit Dove Story
If you look to the right side of the photo you can see my Copper Dove. I was bloging for Peace that morning. On that morning none of the copper scrap peices were etched. A lot of etching and printing has happened over the years since. I started organizing the plates for printing in 2022. …
When I Was a Little Girl
This image is part of a project I am working on that has no deadline 🙂 I refere to it as “Then and Now”. The painted on doll figures were in another print way back in the early 90ˋs When I was a little girl I got a walking doll for Chirstmas. It was my …
Turtally Fun! For Sure:)
Way back in 2024 I had an idea for two scrape peices of copper hanging around since the 90ˋs I love the Printmaking process. Down below I will show you some photos -but first here are a couple of fun finished prints. There are four finished with backgrounds. The other three are waiting for an …
Empowerment & I Don’t Need A Prince
This was a fun plate to work on. There are 9 varied `Empowerment`prints editioned and one `I Don’t Need a Princeˋ And the one and only…………. full page print that I liked enough to keep. Too be a Printmaker you really need to love the process!!! Here are a few photos of the process for …
Tortured Soul Print
Way back in the 80’s I was really into woodblock printmaking. Over the years I have moved a lot and discarded a lot of my wood blocks. But Tortured Soul survived. I like hanging it in my studio spaces. I am having fun working on a series of prints “Then and Now”. The next two …
New Beginnings
September always feels like a good time to start something new. Last winter, unfortunately, there were not good working conditions in my studio. Now I’m looking forward to a better winter. In the Print Studio and my Cosy Studio, there’s are a number of editions happening . The “Then & Now” series, the “Here come …
Spirit Dove
Finally the first 2 prints of 4 are finished. Just short a month less then a year when I started. It was June 15, 2022 when I blogged about the Copper Dove: Blog – “Going with the Spirit “ Looking forward to starting the next two prints. Happy Printmaker 😊
Tin Foil Mono-print
I tried this this technique years and years ago. The prints were interesting. An American printmaker David Curles presented the technique at one of Keith Howard’s workshops back in 1997. I was initially disappointed with my attempt again last week. But it has a lot of fun potential. Definitely going to play with the idea …
