Drawing trees again

March 19, 2017 | Alison Sloggett

So its the end of winter , waiting for spring in our new home and garden that has an apple tree down the bottom , which has probably been there as long as the house, on a day when the weather looked chanagable I went out with some big sheets of paper and had a go at drawing the Apple tree, trying to draw loosely , but building up the texture and areas of detail , did a couple of drawings this way happy with them but not sure any of them are perfect.

I will just have to keep drawing trees !

It would be great to hear what you think of them !

Thanks for looking

Final Print Images

June 27, 2014June 27, 2014 | Alison Sloggett

These are the three final prints I put up in the my degree show

( well versions of them, they vary slightly),

these are just printed cleanly without too much added.

I shall upload images of the slightly different versions, and hopefully with links to my etsy shop where you can purchase your very own copy! Soooon!

Carved Upwards and detail

Leaning Down and detail

Oriental Plane and detail

Sneak peek of my work up in UWE degree show..

May 30, 2014May 30, 2014 | Alison Sloggett

So three years of Thursdays are soon at an end, culminating in the Degree Show!

Here are my three pieces up on the wall, if you find yourself in Bristol from the 7th of June to the 12th do come have a look the Show !

I Shall post more photos later …

Blue Or No Blue?

May 21, 2014 | Alison Sloggett

hhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm……………………………….

……………………………………………………………………………………………..what do you think?

Spring Sunshine Means The Perfect Time To Draw Trees and other stories

April 23, 2014April 23, 2014 | Alison Sloggett

Have I mentioned I love trees?

Ongoing Etches

April 1, 2014 | Alison Sloggett

This is a detail of one of three (soon to be four) large copper plates ( about A2 size) that I am working on at the moment, and the first proof of it after etching to add more lines. they are going well if slowly!

I have tried to exaggerate the perspectives of the trees to emphasise some of the extraordinary shapes they make, and have been using a new process for me, sugar lift then spit biting.

Paper Bark Birch Part 2

March 11, 2014March 11, 2014 | Alison Sloggett

Carrying on from last post, here is reworked print with a layer of tone added with the techniques of sugar lift and Spit-biting .

It is a techniques that helps create a much more painterly mark. I was pleased with the outcome because of the range of tones I have managed to make.

As I am new to Spit biting I was working without really knowing what I would get at the end, hoping I was leaving acid on long enough, or not too long!

Drawing on copper of Paper Bark Birch

Image | February 11, 2014February 11, 2014 | Alison Sloggett

I am finding myself enjoying dry point marks much more than normal etching marks on copper, this was a little trial to see how pressure effects the line quality, and I quite liked the outcome, and I could work into it more perhaps adding tone, what do you think?