Working on new things for Inkmeup and an urge took me to draw something without feathers! I did start off drawing in pencil but I have a tendency to second guess my choices and rub out alot so I started a brand new page and switched to the gocco carbon pens, which give a lovely fine line.
Drawing in ink means that the choices you make right are wrong are permanent so I think more about the marks I am making, also it skips a step which makes the process a bit quicker especially on a day like today where I'm impatient to get the gocco out and burn a screen.
As with most drawings I started with the eyes and then worked outwards, I made the kitten a little bigger then I intended to so he only just fit on the screen!
I had a horrible moment when firing the screen where one of the flash bulbs didn't go off, I retouched a few bits of the drawing with the pens, crossed my fingers, inserted some new bulbs and prayed that there would be enough carbon left on the paper for a good screen!
I held my breath and pushed down on the gocco machine...
And it worked! Phew!
So tomorrow I have the task of photographing my new kitty prints once they dry, I did a few moleskine notebooks, some prints on white and some on "Loveable beasts" book pages. I also used the cloth inks and made some cloth prints to turn into lavender bags, which need pressing and sewing, so my weekend off work is shaping up to be a busy one!
Oh Dear... It's been a while since my last blog so I should probably fill you in on the last months happening. I haven't had much time for Inky things and have been really busy with my other felty business, Feltmeupdesigns... I booked my first fair, and while some inky things are coming with me it's the Wool Weekend in Harrogate so I can only take a few and the rest needs to be wooly things.
I have managed to make time for a couple of new designs the Little Owl prints you may have already seen in my shops and some new feather designs. I got a new riso fountain pen which has the ink that is required to make gocco screens in it so have been experimenting with that, it's lovely and makes the most beautiful fluid mark... the fibretip pens I have been using are great but they don't quite feel right to draw with when you are used to dip pens.
I have also been working on a secret project... secret because I wasn't sure if I would mess it up so I am keeping it quiet for now... let just say it involves sewing... and is quite pretty! I might unveil it later in the week but I want to make a few new things before I do.
I have been slowly building up my folksy shop... I'm aiming for 100 items in it by early september and I'm getting there... it involves a lot of going thru stock and listing, which can be painfully slow but very necessary.
I'm looking forward to getting this fair out of the way so I can focus on more Ink based projects! I have so many ideas my head may explode!!!
