9 December 2024

Before I started working in clay, I did another embossed paper image. This time I used more earthy colours, yellow ocher, burnt umber and raw sienna, with a little touch of black ink. I used a similar approach to how I applied oxides on my ceramic pieces last year and squirted water to direct the colour flow.

The process of producing work using lino is – print the images from it first, emboss any paper if I wish, and then use it for clay relief work. The clay is quite harsh on the lino.

I rolled out a slab of clay, I can get two A5 images from one slab.

Instead of using a roller and pressing hard, I used the tile press as the clay tiles were small enough to fit into the press.

As you can see from the image above there is a little seepage around the edges and these needed straightening and tidying up to create a nice looking tile.