Planet Ruby Starrs

I hope the new look blog is behaving itself ... please let me know if its not!  I think you can now subscribe to get email reminders again - I seemed to have lost that button before and hopefully it doesn't jump about as you read it! I've been colouring in.  This beetle is from a photograph I took in the Natural history Museum.  I used the photograph, cropped it, enlarged it and then using Photoshop I digitized it until it was just the bare 'bones' leaving me a lovely image to play with. . Its been a quieter week at college - I have been consolidating my work and reflecting on what I have got and where to go next.   I have complied a large file of resource inspiration, some of it primary photographs, collated artists that inspire me and some market research about my potential target audience.  this file is a work in progress as I add to it all the time as inspiration hits me but a lot of it is made up of photographs from my travels and gallery visits...

Moderately successful mono printing session - They don't all look so marvelous at the moment but once these prints are scanned in and cleaned up on photo shop they will make interesting lines for collage pictures... its a variation on line drawing.  I think the trick with mono printing is to relax and not worry about the messiness - there are no clean lines but there are interesting ones! As I continued I started to get the ink ratio a little better, and the prints got clearer, its a gloriously untidy process and I'm going to do more tomorrow.  Practice makes better... there is no such thing as perfect mono prints! I'm also going to try some simple printing on paper with found objects- again I'm looking for interesting lines, I'm hoping to use them in final designs for borders and backgraounds.