Sandra Cole Burke shares her print making process with us.
Sandra is a member of our group and also the Stouffville Studio Tour. She is studio number 11 on this years Tour
Last summer I worked on my “forest lair
“series which I completed in my back yard.
The tree, over one hundred years old, was
from Geneva Park near Orillia. It had fallen in a storm. The people who were
removing it from where it had fallen kindly cut off two pieces (called tree cookies) with a chainsaw. One of
these trees cookies is what I used as my
woodblock to create my “forest lair” series.
The first three photos are of the woodblock
and the tools I used to carve it.
The
next three photos are of the prints hanging to dry with two colours on the rice
paper.
Photo number 7 shows the rice paper ready
for me to add the third colour.
The next three photos are of
- preparing the ink,
- adding the extender ( making it more transparent) and the
retarder ( preventing it from drying too fast),
- and the roller after I have inked up the woodblock.
Photo 11 is getting ready to print the reddish
colour onto the rice paper.
Photo 12 is peeling off the paper.
Photo 13 is of the lino bird printed on the
“forest lair”.
The last two photos are of the “forest
lair” series.
One of the “forest lair” series original
woodblocks is on exhibition from July 4- September 28 2012 with the Stouffville Studio Tour Artists Show in the foyer of the Municipal offices in
Stouffville.
Thanks Sandra!
