For this exercise, I decided to use my kitchen sink as the basis for a swimming pool scene. This gave me the opportunity to explore reflections on water, reflections on flat and curved surfaces and […]

Jaws – Steven Spielberg – 1975 Another storyboard. I feel I spent rather too much time on the earlier ones so wanted to do something quickly with sustained effort over a shorter time period – […]

Hmm. I started out using a very thick, tacky, water-based relief ink. It worked great for the abstract stuff but very difficult to work with here. See the two lower, aborted pieces. It was just […]

I found this exercise unexpectedly problematic. Clearly too much ink in the lower image but then when I tried with less, I had too little! I suspected the thick and tacky relief ink was part […]

Based on previous experiments, I’ve found that torn-up newspaper gives good results with the thick relief ink I’m using. I’ve also tried thin pheasant-tail grass stems and heads but with limited success. I’m also using […]

I’ve found that masking areas with objects produces some rather uninspiring and blurry-outlined negative spaces. However, if I remove the objects and then take another print, magic happens and lots of lovely detail. I’m using […]

Raising Arizona – The Coen Brothers – 1987 When I googled the script for this, I found a version that included scene descriptions and camera positions and movements, which I have included to the right […]

Lawrence of Arabia – David Lean – 1962 The classic introduction of Omar Sharif’s character. With my new-found ability to digitally cut-out drawn characters, I decided to create the backdrops for these cells from the […]