Andrew J Pegram Art Blog

Tuesday, 18 March 2008

Printmaking: Small Colographs 2006/7

Colographs: small works on cartridge paper

Early House Portraits to 2005/6

House Islington London

House Petaluma California

Sunday, 16 March 2008

Comments on Works made in 2005/6

The work shown below falls into the categories of:
A. Drawings
B. Photographic and
C. Printmaking

A. My drawings are largely made in indian ink on A1 sized sheets of mountboard. This gives a very smooth flat finish. Some works are coloured using watercolour.

B. My photographic work shown here falls into two categories - 1. Sepia Prints of human gesture. These are digital prints made as emulations of Holga images...and 2. A Depopulation series. Digital photographs are manipulated to remove the people. These are shown in pairs before/after - populated/depopulated.

C. Although I have worked with woodcut, monoprint, linocut and colograph, the work here is exclusively screenprinted. The works are made on A3 sized heavy cartridge paper.

Drawings: Works in Pen & Ink at A1 size 2005/6

Thursday, 14 February 2008

Photographic: Depopulation Series 2005/6

Pairs of photographs shown populated and depopulated. The Subjects are Split in Croatia, Florence and Sydney.

Monday, 11 February 2008

Drawings 2005/6

Tuesday, 20 March 2007

Grisailles: 2007/8

Grisailles :

1. Purchase Panels - I used chopping boards.

2. Seal board with thinned PVA Glue.

3. Beat Gesso lightly.

4. Apply Gesso in thin layers – horizontally then vertically.

5. Build up until happy with surface.

6. Sand with flour paper.

7. Seal with thin layer of water based matt varnish.

8. Denib surface.

9. Apply thin translucent coats of white oil paint. (Paint and turps.)

10. Draw image in Indian ink.

11. Wait until dry then over-paint small details with oil paint – I used Payne’s Grey.

12. Leave to dry.

The images continue my theme of the built environment:- interiors, exteriors, townscape etc.