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Final Course Reflection

Posted on May 8, 2015 by SteveCussons

Printmaking 1 has been a hugely enjoyable and rewarding course. I have been introduced to new techniques and developed techniques with which I was already familiar. I have improved my working practice as the course has progressed, especially in the … Continue reading →

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Being Brave – Exhibiting

Posted on March 9, 2015 by SteveCussons

One of the great benefits of being a printmaker, as opposed to a painter, say, is that we often come together to work in an open press situation and therefore readily form part of a practicing community. During my course, … Continue reading →

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Rembrandt Exhibition

Posted on January 13, 2015 by SteveCussons

The exhibition at the National Gallery of Rembrandt’s later works from 1659 onwards. This was a time when Rembrandt was no longer fashionable and he was facing increasing difficulty obtaining commissions. He had overstretched himself financially, borrowing heavily to build … Continue reading →

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Part 5 Gallery

Posted on January 12, 2015 by SteveCussons

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Project 15 – Four Combination and Experimental Prints

Posted on January 9, 2015 by SteveCussons

For the final project in the course, I had a number of ambitions: to continue to look at the subject of iron smelting and casting to use my own created chine colle papers to combine monoprinting with carborundum printing, inspired … Continue reading →

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Project 14 Investigating Combination Printmaking with Chine Colle

Posted on January 8, 2015 by SteveCussons

I have experimented with chine colle at earlier points throughout the course, combining various papers such as tissue, Lokti, Kahdi and gold leave with woodcut, collagraph and linocut. I wanted, in this project, to be rather more ambitious and use … Continue reading →

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Research Point – Chine Colle

Posted on January 8, 2015 by SteveCussons

Chine colle is the application of pasted thin papers or metal leaf to a plate such that when it is printed, the inked image will overprint the applied paper and integrate it into the image and the support. Printmakers use … Continue reading →

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Project 13 Combination Monoprint

Posted on January 7, 2015 by SteveCussons

For this project, I wanted to continue to build on work from previous projects where I felt my plates could be enhanced by a monoprinted background. In particular, I wanted to look at the idea of combining a monoprinted background … Continue reading →

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Research – Combining Monoprints with Other Techniques – Barbara Rae

Posted on December 4, 2014 by SteveCussons

When trying to look at examples of prints combining monoprinting with other techniques, Barbara Rae instantly came to mind. I saw two of her works in the ‘flesh’ at this years RA Summer Exhibition, and they stood out for the … Continue reading →

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IPE 2014

Posted on October 29, 2014 by SteveCussons

To challenge myself to produce an edition, I entered the International Print Exchange run by Green Door Printmaking, Derby. I entered a small drypoint developed from looking at Morandi’s work and described here. You submit an edition of 10 prints, … Continue reading →

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