Hilary Beattie Workshop

This was started as a result of rescuing two label sized pieces of printed text that had been discarded by someone else at the Hilary Beattie Workshop.  I made them into houses and added a couple of cut outs from my Gelli prints.  Everytime I open my sketchbook at find something else I can do to it.  I find scanning the image into the computer gives a different perspective to the work and you can often see things that were not obvious before.

Hilary Beattie - the rest

Some images from the work created by the other people on the course ....

Apologies for the quality of the image above.  I just had to include it as the concept of text and print was so delightful and something I do not think I could have produced myself.

Materials used to produce some of the images

More HB Workshop

We created lots of papers on Hilary's workshop which were used as backgrounds or cut up and collaged to produce interesting images.

Gelli printed leaves, drawn on with a Markal blender stick, painted with Procion dye, cut out and collaged with Matt Gel Medium.  Detail was added using Neocolour I crayons.

A small piece of newspaper, which had been used as a drop cloth in a previous life, was salvaged to add a perfect highlight to this piece which also included grasses printed from the Gelli plate and then collaged onto the background.

The negative image of a cut out leaf was used to add interest to a background that had been created using stencils and moulding paste, brought to life with a wash of Procion dye.

An experiment with black gesso.  I found it needed more than one coat of gesso to get any depth of colour before working on top of it with moulding paste, stencils, crayons, metallic paint, etc.

Surprising what a bit of rain can do!

Even the fruit we used to print from made an excellent still life composition!!

Who needs to draw when you can photograph images like this?  It is the remains of an onion used for printing, laid on a table amongst the detritus of a day's play.

HB Sauce

Had a fabulous three days with Hilary Beattie at Redditch.  A lively and colourful tutor, full of enthusiasm and joy.  It should be bottled and labelled 'HB Sauce'!  Here are a few of the images I produced.  Everyone had fun using fruit and vegetables on their Gelli plates ...

Lemon left to dry then printed

 The images above and below were inked on the Gelli plate and then printed direct onto cartridge paper.

Half an Onion

 The images from the Gelli plate are just as interesting:-

Pears printed from the Gelli Plate surface

Pear Quarters

The image above is what was produced from the paint left on the plate.  It reminded me so much of the Marcel Duchamp painting below:-

Messing About Big Time

Looks like Hilary has found a new man in her life!!  A rather sinister chap.

 Someone's nice Gelli plate image and a page from their sketchbook ...

Work in progress - trying out some black gesso in the top left hand corner.  Needs lots of additional work yet.