Derby Print Open 2018
Wearing a big smile on my face ever since hearing about being awarded a prize for the Green Door Printmaking / Derby Print Open 2018....
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Bella Bee
Jun 7, 20181 min read
RBSA
It's not until July but I've just heard so am ready to spread the news already. One of my drypoint monoprints 'Coast' has been accepted...
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Bella Bee
Jun 5, 20181 min read
Guernsey and Herm
Visiting a friend who lives in Guernsey for the weekend, we took the ferry for the short trip to Herm Island. Despite the sea being as...
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Bella Bee
May 25, 20181 min read
Playing with colour and shape
#printmaking #monoprint #artabstract
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Bella Bee
May 20, 20181 min read
Paint
It was Ian in the workshop who asked whether I had painted anything recently. Just that one comment obviously started something. It was...
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Bella Bee
May 13, 20181 min read
Machine and Mercurial
Delivering work to 44AD Studio in Bath ready for their Edition 4: machine and mercurial exhibition; a short exhibition running from the...
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Bella Bee
May 2, 20181 min read
Copper plate, side A and the flipside
It's not that copper plates are so expensive they need to be justified, it is more that experimentation is fun. Having used the main side...
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Bella Bee
Apr 25, 20181 min read
Copper Plate - the print
The copper plates etched at home the other day (see previous post) were taken into the workshop today to print. The oil-based relief...
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Bella Bee
Apr 17, 20181 min read
Printing a beach
Another visit to Jane's studio with Hayley, and strangely enough, there we were both on a beach theme. It was all about pebbles this week...
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Bella Bee
Apr 10, 20181 min read
Tiny squares
Is there no end to the fun to be had with designing these tiny squares of drypoints? It seems not. I'd only bought around 8 boxes to put...
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Bella Bee
Mar 22, 20181 min read
Rock, pebble, stone.
It seems the main difference between these three is the context in which they are set. Without a reference point, it is hard to gauge...
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Bella Bee
Mar 7, 20181 min read
Crowded
Drypoint on 250 gsm Somerset This plate was printed on two different papers which gave surprisingly different results. The Somerset...
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Bella Bee
Mar 5, 20181 min read
Catkins and furrows, the print
Hand-made drypoint print looking at an abstract of the south field in winter.
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Bella Bee
Feb 25, 20181 min read
The Long Gallery
Frome Art Society has a smashing range of original art for sale in the Long Gallery, Black Swan Arts. Hop on over Thursday mornings to meet
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Bella Bee
Feb 22, 20181 min read
Experimental
Working with experimental archival paper, a test to see if it was good for printmaking.
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Bella Bee
Feb 20, 20181 min read
Heat Bed Press Printmaking
Printmaking using leaves and seed heads.
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Bella Bee
Feb 17, 20181 min read
Catkins and Furrows
Sketch with tape The land's contours show up more when lined by sprouting furrows, the long rectangles echoed in catkins opening to...
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Bella Bee
Feb 13, 20181 min read
Escaping the mud
Tilly and I have started walking in a different area as the usual tracks have turned to mud in the February lanes. The ivy-strewn copse...
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