sea blue sky abstracts

I'm so looking forward to resuming painting and spent a pleasant few hours photographing, labelling and wrapping the artwork pictured below, today. Two mounted oil paintings on board delivered to St Ives Society of Artists Mariners Gallery and assorted prints delivered to Art Space Gallery, St Ives 'Long Surf Beach' oil on primed board, mounted.   SOLD 'Breaker Spray'  oil on primed board, mounted.   SOLD Click to enlarge.  Copyright Lesley Ninnes St Ives, Cornwall.

Last Thursday found me at a workshop held by Michele Wright and Marie Keeling at the Porthmeor Printmakers premises in Back Road West, St Ives.  There was an opportunity to produce a drypoint print before moving on to create collagraph prints - the first example of which can be seen below. With collagraph, all sorts of materials can be stuck onto board to create texture and imagery.  My board has some sort of fibre thread, bracken fronds, anaglypta and at the top, pieces of an absorbent paper that's often used to wrap flowers, all glued down with PVA adhesive.  The entire surface of the board is then sealed with Shellac and when dry is put through the printing press.   (Now I've slipped up here having not photographed the prints before painting on them at home - my favourite part!) The first was very inky - there's even a splodge at the bottom.  The bracken has been painted over with watercolour and gouache with pink gouache over the light area around...