Friday, February 24, 2012

Drypoint etching at the Villa

It is an amazing space here visually with surroundings of sport, open grass, and this heritage villa.  I have met some lovely people and having my etching press was worth the effort of getting it to Sydney.  It has opened up some great opportunities for the locals here.
Bharti designed her image and tested it on fabric with great success!
The classes on drypoint etching are fun for everyone as they can design an image, scratch and mark a plate and then ink it up with some lovely results in a day.


Kavitha was using traditional Indian designs to inspire her imagery!

Jenny scratching in designs that abstracted from nature!


Our next workshops are for International Womens Day which is celebrated on the 8th March.  I'm looking forward to the breakfast and our exhibition at the Ashfield Council.  More pics coming!!






Sunday, February 12, 2012

dancing queenie

This female form was inspired by trying on a beautiful party dress and twirling around in it... dancing queenie I call her.. an older woman version of Abba's song!!

My last drawing she was dancing or purging on top of her house...in this work in progress- you can start to see her twirling on top of a vacuum cleaner and in what I want to be eventually, an evocative darkened room...

pencil drawing in process at ashfield