{"id":86,"date":"2012-05-10T16:37:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T16:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk:\/studiodiary\/?p=86"},"modified":"2012-05-10T16:37:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T16:37:28","slug":"turned-out-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Turned Out Nice&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve got a show on at the moment down at the Margate Gallery (it\u2019s on until 20<sup>th<\/sup> May if you happen to be visiting). I grabbed the opportunity while there to visit the Turner Contemporary. Brilliantly I chose the day the gallery was celebrating its birthday and they gave me a goody bag with a large pink sparkly cupcake inside. No pass the parcel, but you can\u2019t have everything&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Turner: what a very clever man he was and how I envy that ability to catch light and shadow. I do try and depict our fabulously unpredictable climate in my prints and I\u2019m always looking for new ways of saying \u2018about to rain\u2019 or \u2018sun on snow\u2019 etc, but my language is the removed one of printmaking rather than the immediate splash of watercolours. Normally I work with oil based relief inks on lino or with watercolour and rice paste on woodblock, but, excited by Turner and the E numbers in the cup cake icing, I wanted to see if I could get close to a watercolour sketch with lino. One of my experiments is below, a little illustration of the Lincolnshire fens which I drive through when visiting my sister. It\u2019s done in water based ink, a mix of Schminke inks and Graphical Chemical, with an awful lot of extender added for transparency. It\u2019s printed on Zerkal paper which is fine for small prints, but I\u2019ve found to cockle on a larger scale.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_87\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk:\/studiodiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/rain-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87\" title=\"rain-002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk:\/studiodiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/rain-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/rain-002.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/rain-002-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fen Skies Series: Squall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You\u2019ll notice that I\u2019ve used a brush to put rain into the print. Normally I work with rollers on lino. This time I used a damp but bristly decorator\u2019s brush and swept the ink onto the block before printing it immediately. The trick is to confine yourself to simple bold strokes; the moment you get fussy you lose the definition of the brush stroke.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll never produce an identical edition this way, but that\u2019s never bothered me particularly: the weather\u2019s never the same two days running, so why should my prints all match?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve got a show on at the moment down at the Margate Gallery (it\u2019s on until 20th May if you happen to be visiting). I grabbed the opportunity while there to visit the Turner Contemporary. Brilliantly I chose the day the gallery was celebrating its birthday and they gave me a goody bag with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/?p=86\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turned Out Nice&#8230;&#8221;<\/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-86","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\/86","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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}