Edward Lear
Edward Lear
Edward Lear.
New Project in Progress:
Working progress from Jennifer !
pic 1 - drawing into the blackened plate (the waxed surface of the metal plate is made black by burning it in candle flame)
pic 2 - adding Bitumin paint to the plate where I don’t want the acid dip to eat at the metal
pic 3 - the plate about 45 minutes later (it has been sitting in a liquid that eats the metal thus making the lines where it has been exposed)
pic 4 - a close up. The final print is yet to come!
pic 5 - squeezed this in to show a happy mistake - this is Foss the Cat (Lear’s sidekick) that I wanted to make a postcard from. I used the Dry Point method for this but didn’t dig deep enough so it came out very light… but looks quite fluffy! Quite nice to see the mistakes sometimes..
Coming Up!
More plate etching.
Two big loves:
Rembrandt and Eggplant.
The Dong with the Luminous Nose… Back to front. Because I’m poorly and didn’t think it through…
Ideas
Setting up the show: now if only I had an iPad, painting this pussycat would’ve been much easier!
What a trooper!!
‘There was an Old Person whose habits,
Induced him to feed upon rabbits;
When he’d eaten eighteen,
He turned perfectly green,
Upon which he relinquished those habits.’
‘Piggiwiggia Pyramidalis’.
‘Enkoopia Chickabiddia’
‘Fishia Marina’
First draft image for literary magazine ‘Lamplands’ submissions page. An homage to Edward Lear’s limerick:
There was an Old Person whose habits,
Induced him to feed upon rabbits;
When he’d eaten eighteen,
He turned perfectly green,
Upon which he relinquished those habits.
