Shop Re Opened and More Experiments

Finally I've been able to get down to sorting and aligning prices. It's always difficult to keep my etsy shop prices consistent with my gallery prices, not sure why I find it so difficult, but I've never been the most organised of people so that might have something to do with it!

Ah, I've just realised why it was difficult in the past - etsy used to be in US$ and obviously the galleries I exhibit in are all in AU$ so as the exchange rate changed I'd have to go into the online shop and fix all the prices to be consistant. NOW, hooray, etsy gives you the option of selling in your own currency, so all problems are over. It was not down to my lack of organisation after all!

So, yes shop reopened, just in time to miss Christmas completely! You can see it all here, I've also listed a few of my new pieces.

ok now for something a bit more interesting - pictures!

 Thursday being experimental day I put aside the birds and looked for something else to inspire me. I didnt look very far, just outside my studio door is a wire chair. I made three dry point acetate plates and wanted to layer up colours. The first plate was the chair, the second the grass and the third I rubbed sandpaper over the surface of the plate giving a skylike print.

 I didn't use all three plates for every print, I liked the differences and the simplicity of just using 2 or just 1 plate.

 Some of the prints are ghost prints (when you print from the same plate a second time without reinking it) giving a softer tone. You can see this in the grass of the above picture.

 and here they are all together with some blank squares in between. I really like the prints of just grass, they really show the absence of something and they are quite different to my birdy work! It was also good to find an interesting way to create a background (the sandpapered plate) I'm always wanting to have some sort of texture in the backgrounds of my birds.