Last week I learned …
Last week I learned to use a timer, did some drawing exercises and attempted multiple plate printing.
In a bid to perfect my drawing skills I spent 30 minutes looking at a brass weight; drawing it from different angles, 🙂 with various types of pencil and charcoal and in varying sizes. Each exercise was carefully timed so it was important that I used a timer. This procedure I hope to do each day so that I can ‘generate ideas and produce a series of marks and shapes’. (so they say!)
On Saturday I went to my Printing Class and I learned to print an image using three different colours. The results,are perhaps not works of art, but a basis from which I can learn. So the vital lesson learned is that to use a timer is pretty easy; the rest is a work in progress and I will not as they say ‘give up my day job’.
Coat Hanger Doll's House 
the timer is such a good idea – focuses the attention and I like the combo of red and green in your print
It [the timer] did just that … I tried with out and I got frustrated, Yes green and red is pleasing artistically so I am told 🙂
I like the print. If not “art,” it might have other uses, such as gift wrap, or part of a collage . . . I own a motel, so whenever I have something I like, but it’s not really terrifically exciting or meaningful to me, I think, I’ll hang that one in a motel room . . .
This is is good advice … and you are not the first to recommend collage ; so I am bracing myself to rip them up!! 🙂
Ha, mostly for collage I use junk images (like old magazines). But since it’s a print, you could always make another run later.
Oh! yes I can … that is the beauty of a print this was a first run and already I have improved the image. But I haven’t done collage before; I am old school … ‘art’ has change much since I was at school!