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Exposing the plate:
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The plates are coated in a hard ground and smoked. The smoking process covers the plate with soot, which makes it much easier to spot any unwanted marks on the plate.
Paint testing
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The colourways have been decided, so small quantities of test paint can be mixed.
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Things are going well but I am not achieving the finish I want, perhaps I will have to start from scratch.
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I am about to embark on a new body of work, ‘All that I know’. Although that’s slightly misleading, because I have felt this idea wriggling around in my head for quite some time. To be more precise, I think I am about to put pen to paper.
A gift to the gods, Bali
Jade artefact at the British Museum
Creating a digital palette
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Using the eye dropper, I create a digital palette by sampling each of the colours. The matches are good but not perfect and quite adequate to work with.
Transferred onto plate:
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The original drawing ready for transfer to the plate using carbon paper. This needs to be ‘back to front’ in order to print the right way round.
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I don’t specifically work at finding new ideas, but I do feel them forming in my mind, and I started thinking about this particular project some considerable time ago. What I am not at all sure about is why now is the right time to make a start.
