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18 novembre 2009

Dionne Swift, textile artist

(picture from http://www.craftmaker.co.uk/dionneswift/) My favorite artist exhibition at the Knitting and Stitching Show in Dublin was the one by Dionne Swift . The first picture is one of her devore works on velvet. She also sells kits to experiment...

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Tags: print, textile, artists, exhibitions

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4 juillet 2009

Thinking origami #2: The Coot

More patterns developed from origami shapes. See what happened to the little boat here .

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Tags: illustrator, print, design, screenprinting, pattern, origami

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15 juin 2009

Screenprinting weekend #4: Collective print

Details of a collective work from latest screenprinting workshop at Liz Nilsson 's studio, made by the people that took part in the workshop: Marie, Cristina, Sinead, Cliona, Cecile and me.

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Tags: print, textile, screenprinting, workshop, fabric

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14 juin 2009

Screenprinting weekend #3: A work in progress

As I mentioned in this post , in the latest screenprinting workshop at Liz Nilsson 's I had very ambitious project in mind, and this was the printing of a square tablecloth (160x160 cm) with a border of my own design (see planned layout in the last picture...

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Tags: print, design, textile, screenprinting, pattern, fabric, origami

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12 juin 2009

Thinking origami #1: The Boat

Let me introduce a series of posts where I'll present some of the patterns I've been creating lately. They are all based on origami shapes and are intended as ideas for future screenprints. The boat is one of my favourites and I really enjoyed playing...

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Tags: illustrator, print, design, screenprinting, pattern, origami

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11 juin 2009

Screenprinting weekend #2: Making holes

Some images of effects obtained with newspaper and a paper punch during the latest screenprinting workshop at Liz Nilsson 's studio.

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Tags: print, design, paper, textile, screenprinting, workshop

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10 juin 2009

Screenprinting weekend #1: the Japanese paper

You might wonder what I'm doing in the pictures above, and if you had asked me on the spot I would had told you 'I don't know!'I was again at Liz Nilsson 's studio for another wonderful 2-day screenprinting workshop and the stencil I have prepared for...

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Tags: print, design, paper, textile, screenprinting, workshop, japanese

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27 mai 2009

The 'Arboles' series

A quick sketch for an etching. Then at Graphic Studio Dublin I printed proofs in different colours, but I only was happy with these two:

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Tags: etching, print, sketchbook, drawing, trees

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12 mai 2009

More and more screenprinting!

I did it again. Another screenprinting workshop! I was really looking forward, since these workshops at Liz Nilsson' s studio are the only chances to do some screeprinting. I have bought some materials from Selectasine but unfortunately I don't have a...

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Tags: print, screenprinting, workshop

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9 mai 2009

Random screenprinting #3

This is another example of my experiments with screenprinting during Liz Nilsson 's workshop. In this case I put a piece of plastic lace under the fabric and then printed with green dye using an open screen.

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Tags: print, design, screenprinting, lace

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7 mai 2009

Attention: birds overhead

Another etching from my course at Graphic Studio Dublin . In this post you can see a preliminary sketch . And these are some pictures of much more populated wires I photographed in Galway some time ago. I like the pictures but I decided to kill some birds...

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Tags: etching, print, drawing, birds

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6 mai 2009

Random screeprinting #2

Another experiment from Liz Nilsson 's screenprinting workshop. I was trying to use in a different way the screen with circles I had prepared for this design, and somehow the mesh got blocked so I got these 'faulty' print with some not printed spots....

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Tags: print, design, textile, screenprinting

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5 mai 2009

Random screenprinting #1

This is another screenprint I made at Liz Nilsson's workshop in her Dublin studio. I started printing a monochromatic base (lime green), then added some spots of colour with a rubber stamp, dropped some dye with a brush, and finally I overprinted the...

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4 mai 2009

Birds

One of the most interesting activities I've been doing this year was the screenprinting course at Liz Nilsson 's studio here in Dublin. The course consisted of six lessons and during this time the basics of screenprinting on textiles were explained, as...

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Tags: print, design, birds, screenprinting, pattern

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1 mai 2009

From my sketchbook: the olive tree, study for a print

This was inspired by the beautiful olive trees I always see in Sicily when go there on holidays. It was supposed to be a sketch for a dry point print, but I'm not happy with the results of the print, so I show you just the drawing. Maybe I'll come back...

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Tags: nature, etching, print, sketchbook, Sicily, holidays, ink, landscape, trees, photography

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