Wake up and Smell the coffee

This Drypoint printed Artists Book was inspired by my time spent working at Seasons Cafe Deli in Old Amersham, near were I live.  It consists of a front cover, 6 prints of different coffee and a contents page on the back page which tells you of the contents of the different coffees seen in the book.

I've used drypoint printing technique with Chine Colle to attach tissue paper/newspaper to areas of each print.  To do this I apply glue to the tissue and pass it through the press with the print plate when it gets printed.  The whole book is actually on one sheet of paper.  This makes making the book less time consuming, meaning that if you are interested in buying a copy then it works out cheaper than it may of done!  Nice huh?

I made an edition of 12, last year infact, I think it didn't get talked about because I was giving one as a Christmas Present!  However, now you can buy it as a gift too.  It's for sale in my Etsy shop HERE.

Down Your Street

 

Ive recently been working on a sketchbook project (see tab at the top of the blog) 'Down your street' and these are Christmas-a-fied sketches from that in Drypoint using Chine Colle.

They came out pretty well, I'm pleased with how the Christmas trees look.

"Draw with your Knees"

This is a new zine that myself and some friends are working on.  The first theme is 'Body Parts' and these are my images for this.  I tried to include my travel influences and used drypoint and chine colle to their advantages.  I used sculptures from European countries France, Spain, Italy and England and labeled the body parts in the appropriate language.

Barcelona Book

This is the new book that I've been working on for the Leeds book fair (which has just been),and I think that the prints went really well.  I've used drypoint as before and I like them a lot better than my last ones (Barcelona, Toulouse, New York).  There's an edition of 6 and they cost around £25 each.  All are in black ink on cream watercolour paper using the process of chine colle to add colour to each page.