069 Bass Guitar - laser etch perspex and pastel

Today is a first, this is my first piece of laser etched art. I'm suitably excited. I have used the laser cutter for the odd job and to help out the odd student. but I haven't included it in my practice until now. It is an extension of the monotype prints I was doing of guitars a few days ago but with the thin Chinese paper replaced by 10mm perspex.

It's odd but it feels perfectly natural to display my work as it grows and develops like this, I wonder if many artists would do this? 

068 Tubes of paint

Five tubes of oil paint to round off five days of paintings tubes of oil paint.

067 Tube of Gamboge Yellow

This is the best yellow you will ever come across, it is rich translucent and mixed with yellow ochre helps give amazing pastry colours.... I've said too much. I can't give away all my secrets.

The four tubes...

066 tube of Ultramarine Violet

This is one of my newest pigments, it is a transparent purple which can be a little tricky to mix... 

I have a lot of tubes of paint... I might be able to do these all year!

065 Tube of Leaf Green Paint

You know what's coming now don't you! A tube series! I have used a few of them throughout this project!

064 Tube of Paint- monotype and pastel

Continuing my new invention of double layered drawings here is a tube of paint!

063 Fez

This has no particular reference today, other than I wore a little one earlier ! I do love it as a symbol though, I have very fond memories of watching Tommy Cooper and still find him hilariously funny. This is printed on some lovely Japanese paper I have had for years but never known what do with it. It turns out it is really very good for monoprinting on. It is also semi transparent so the colour you see is on a piece of paper mounted behind the print...... Just like that!

Also, check me out writing my initials backwArds so they appear the right way round in the final print!

062 Razor - monotype

A session of mono prints tonight, I drew a whole load of things I remembered from my day, the most exciting thing being that I had a shave. I really needed one! This razor was one the best drawings.

061 Toilet roll - pastel,acrylic and oil paint

I have sometimes worked from a black ground like this, the black ground in this painting is from excess printing ink rolled off my roller. Which gives a lovely fine yet rough surface which is great for paint and pastels. I find loo roll an underrated artists tool. Plus you use it everyday, unless you are in trouble! 

060 Banjolin - monotype and pastel

We have started to call this little instrument a Grandalin because it used to belong to Debbie's Granddad. it is a Banjolin which is half banjo and half mandolin. And very small to play!

059 bass guitar

Nearly done my inventory of instruments here is my short scale bass, easier for my delicate fingers.

058 Resonator - monotype and pastel

You have seen it before but here it is again in this mini series, my resonator guitar, shiny shiny lovely bluesy thing that it is! 

057 Ukulele - monotype and pastel

This is my ukulele which you will often find me strumming at the weekend. Or plucking.

The series so far

056 Aubergine Telecaster - monotype and pastel

Now, stop me if I a becoming a guitar bore, but this guitar I built from parts a few years ago, I keep this tuned to open g so I can play Rolling Stones songs and slides blues. It is darker in real life. 

Just to give you an idea of how I make these here are a selection from the ones I have made over the last few days