Saturday June 30, 12 to 5pm
at the Historic Chinatown GZPS studio

After 3 or 4 generations of drawing out the image to understand the details and essentials, I'm ready to make the transfer tracing to lay onto the soft grounded zinc plate.

I started the "last" one with 4 B pencil . The 4 B will transfer with out too much pressure- The graphite will lay down -the ground will not lift off. I won't use the press, I'll press with a pencil.

Which way is the right way?
Oops, I laid the graphite on the wrong side- Start again ...

Tomorrow, Thurs  June 7 is our last official Plein Air at 10 AM!! at the Chinese Cemetery.
This is my Plein Air kit.
I'm using my old paint box.
It's the first piece of art equipment I ever had, a present from my parents as I headed off to Mount Alison U, in New Brunswick for a summer workshop.
The slots in the lid are perfect for holding roll up plates and water soluble plates.
My mulberry chine paper will be mounted on newsprint rolled up and placed in the box.

Ready to Go.

Great Plein Air, Cindy! Thanks Alain, Nancy, Agnes, Gail, Allen &Gary
Afternoon,nice light, but it looks a lot warmer than it felt, after 1 1/2 hours sitting still in that gorgeous wind.

The roll up plate. I'm pleased with the drawing but I don't love it- I's not exactly my vision of this scene. I think that makes it easier to want to work it out in an etching.

My Bastion Square long monoprint  I feel is so spot-on that it makes me nervous to try to translate it into a plate. I will have to think about that.

I reworked the roll up plate, working on the light table, wiping away ink , experimenting with the values.

Then I printed it on Rives. The ink is quite dry-when I tried to print one of these on mulberry. the paper completely stuck, but the Rives is tough enough to peel off.

This is the ghost-I might use it with pencils to work out values.

I got the image I wanted more or less, although the print is a but blurred -the wind was really strong and I had to keep slapping my hand down on the paper to keep it from flying away-so lots of 'incident' on the print!

This was my first attempt, monoprint transfer,I started way to big to fit the scene I wanted on the page, but kept on anyway to get some of the shapes. The rooftop of the clock tower has a bit of a Chinese tilt to it, and the rounded gable is very baroque, reminds me of that famous Square in Brussells.