{"id":107,"date":"2012-07-13T10:08:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T10:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk:\/studiodiary\/?p=107"},"modified":"2012-07-13T10:38:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T10:38:59","slug":"the-getting-of-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"The getting of wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Along with Woman\u2019s Weekly, I\u2019m a great believer in hints and tips. I do love to experiment and I\u2019m only too eager to share my findings with the world. Mostly my friends and family are not over interested in raising grain on wood, new papers or alum as a mordant, but there are a whole bunch of people out there who are. To that end I run a page on Facebook and if this sounds like a cheap ad then I\u2019ll come clean, it is. Join me at Laura Boswell Printmaker<\/a> and I\u2019ll tell you all sorts of things which may come in handy with your printmaking.<\/p>\n

Not all artists feel the same about this. My favourite horror story came from a weekend student who had asked a technical question about the printmaking she was learning and was told by her artist-teacher that she \u2018couldn\u2019t expect to be handed everything on a plate\u2019. I had a chat about this with a class of eleven year olds recently and was told in no uncertain terms \u2018if you tell all your secrets Miss, then other people will do it too\u2019.<\/p>\n

Fortunately for me there are fairly big odds stacked against me being replaced, whatever secrets I tell. I arrive at my images by a process which is a complete mystery to me. I have a feel for how I want things to look, nothing as clear as a mental picture, and I simply strike out in that direction. It\u2019s not much of a road map and I\u2019m fairly sure that other artists are way more interested in taking their own journey, not mine.<\/p>\n

The other issue is sheer hard boring work. A marathon runner can tell you what shoes to wear, which drinks to use, how to interval train, but it\u2019s you who has to get out there and suffer the running. Printmaking is a hard, long, precise slog with many, many mistakes and disappointments before you get to the point where \u2018it looks easy\u2019 and that takes serious passion. Add to that the work of being self employed: the pitches, the marketing, the paperwork, the logistics of exhibitions, the rejections, the teaching prep etc. Frankly not many people will be up for that. Most people are sensibly happy to print as an adjunct to normal life and if they are in it for the long haul then, like me, they need all the help they can get.
\nSo, I\u2019ll keep on being open and excited to share everything I do. Frankly if I help in making printmaker\u2019s lives a bit easier then great, I\u2019m proud to do that. I\u2019ve been on the receiving end of enough brilliant advice in my time to be only too happy to pass some along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Along with Woman\u2019s Weekly, I\u2019m a great believer in hints and tips. I do love to experiment and I\u2019m only too eager to share my findings with the world. Mostly my friends and family are not over interested in raising grain on wood, new papers or alum as a mordant, but there are a whole … Continue reading “The getting of wisdom”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}