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Sand patterns from my recent holiday in Southport, Tas

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Photos of sand patterns taken at Southport yesterday, on holidays

Here are a few photos of my rocks and the area where they came from:

This tryptich was edited in photoshop to show a sequence of events, from entering the area where I found the rocks, their location and a collection of the rocks overlayed into the water

A collection of drypoints and etchings printed onto rust dyed and eucalypt dyed paper:

More etchings and drypoint onto undyed paper:

 

    

       

Lino cuts on paper

 

Screen prints onto rust dyed fabric:

Using a freezer paper stencil

Using wax crayon to frottage the rocks directly onto the silk screen as a resist for printing

Printed into my journal

Experiments with rust printing through a silk screen, idea read in a recent Quilting Arts magazine, see article below:

    

On the left are the rock images used to make a small solar silk screen and on the right are the iron screen printed images into my journal using the techniques from the article above

A few final experiments with frottage on the left and on the right I used a sakura clear glaze gel pen to draw some rock images and then painted over (under as well), the gel pen acts like a resist and gives some interesting effects:

Module 1: Chapter 1: Research for Design Unit

This is my first post, guess I have to start somewhere! I have been avoiding this for nearly a year, get a bit nervous about writing, an empty page can be scary. I have been making notes in my journal and thinking a lot about my research topic, which has evolved a lot since I first enrolled in the diploma. I will start by adding in images from my journal of my thoughts from the beginning of the year to my more refined ideas that I journaled the other day.
Basically my research has centred around some found rocks from a nearby estuary at Penna (South East Tasmania). I have been using these rocks in my artwork over 2013, in printmaking and photography, but not in stitch. I have done some screen printing onto fabric but that is as far as I got. I am also interested in the area where I found the rocks, the coastline and local vegetation. There are also some nearby rock formations and cliffs that form part of the bay. I am also interested in the history of the rocks and their geology which I hope will also play a part during the course.
Originally my topic was broader and included the entire Derwent River and its' estuaries as I thought it better to have a broader focus, but Sian thought a tighter focus would be more useful. The name I have given my blog is the Aboriginal name for the Derwent River which I thought was apt when I first set up the blog at the beginning of my research.