These are recent experiments: Two sketchbook pages, experimenting with inkjet print transfers using gel medium and a magazine transfer using acrylic paint and a gel plate. Some more acrylic canvases, with an initial page in my altered book. I watched a Youtube video on using alcohol inks on a gelli plate with...
Author: Cherry Hirsch
More acrylic painting
I’ve been doing some more acrylic painting. I wanted to try an autumn scene, using a pice of Virginia creeper: I did an online course with Laly Mille on painting roses which I loved. This painting is on canvas and I used cut out images of roses, acrylic paint, alcohol inks, black ink, tissue paper.
More Indigo Work
After the wonderful course with Rob Jones at West Dean College, I made up my own indigo vat. I wanted to dye some papers and I also wanted to eco print in a turmeric bath, over dyeing with indigo. The end result was this book, using papers, fabrics and various other bits and pieces. Most...
Indigo and Shibori at West Dean
I had the good fortune to experience a week of Summer School at West Dean, attending a course on Shibori and Indigo dyeing with Rob Jones, of Romor Designs, who is strongly influenced by Japanese techniques in the art, is a wonderful teacher and gave us so much information. Here are a few of my...
Acrylic painting with plant material
I’ve been experimenting with doing something else with plant material – adding them to acrylic paintings: