The House of Bernarda Alba continued.......

Well, what can I say, I haven't uploaded in a very long time now and so consequently there is quite a backlog! Just so you know, it took me many hours to scan nearly 30 pages!.........ok, not many hours.....maybe, half of one but still, a long time :) Hopefully the work is worth it? I'll leave you to decide on that one.

The House of Bernarda Alba

So, a couple of weeks ago I started a new project! Very exciting :) and this time it's...... another play. "The House of Bernarda Alba" was written by Lorca in Spain in 1936. It takes a minute and uncompromising glimpse into the lives of a family of five sisters who are ruled over by their tyrannical mother, Bernarda Alba. I want to take it into etching eventually although it's been fun turning my hand to pen and ink.

Lithography

Just a quick post today :) At the beginning of this new term I signed up for a Lithography workshop. Below is the outcome. Basically, you grind down the surface of a pretty big stone to make it nice and smooth, then you draw directly on to it with a litho crayon. It's quite an intensive process but the advantage to this process is that the end print comes out almost exactly like how you see it on the stone plate and you can get a much more varied range of marks as apposed to etching.

The Sketchbook Project.

The Sketchbook Project is an excellent initiative in America to encourage people to be creative. Every year (around october time I think) you can sign up, pick a theme and they send you little sketch book which you then commence to fill with whatever you like while using the theme as a starting point. At the end of January you send the sketchbook back and then ALL the sketchbooks are collated together into an exhibition that travels the world! This is my contribution to this years Sketchbook Project. It's been an absolute pleasure to do and I would advise everyone to do it, we need more creativity in this old world :)

My Theme was "Forever in a nutshell."