[BAS Newsletter] Art Matters Friday 16th July - Tondos Challenge

[Paul Stringfellow]

Dear All,

*For the next Art Matters meeting planned for the 16th July we are 
asking for Tondos.*
A tondo is a circular work of Art, although the famous examples are from 
the Renaissance, they are surprisingly fun and interesting to do. So dig 
out the compass/draw round a plate and see what happens. As usual any 
medium but for once any subject matter! Look forward to seeing the 
interpretations on the 16th.

*At  last weeks Art Matters meeting on Ancestors*

- we saw some great Ancestor portraits and also had a discussion on 
inheritance, history,  monoprinting and photography.  So a couple of 
links from that session:

*Monoprints/Monotypes*

I found this one the most useful guide of the process I followed for the 
print that I showed:

https://cristearoberts.com/films/29/ <https://cristearoberts.com/films/29/>

I think she suggests using turps or white spirit to dilute the paint. I 
found Liquin worked best when rolling out the paint and then rags and 
cotton buds dipped in white spirit - and sticks and brushes and palette 
knives to remove the paint. But it is also possible to make the print by 
painting onto the surface and printing that.

I have also been recommended this video which I think uses acrylic.

https://youtu.be/RmlPOr4r470 <https://youtu.be/RmlPOr4r470>

There are lots of videos out there using not only oils but acrylic, 
printing ink even watercolour. My experience of doing these prints 
without a press is it helps to use a thinner paper - cartridge paper 
worked fine (unless you are worried by the oil paint destroying the 
paper in 10 years time) but thicker papers were a disaster. But failed 
prints make great surfaces for pastels.

There is a difference between monoprints and monotypes which escapes me 
but if you are searching online to find examples and How To’s best to 
try both as they seem to be used interchangeably.

*Photography*

The Photography programme that we mentioned was Britian in Focus - A 
Photographic History. It  is presented by Eamon McCabe and is still 
available on iPlayer and is worth a look - though the middle episode 
which is about photojournalism has some harrowing images.

*Paper*

The paper that Colin and I used (Colin with alcohol ink, me with oil 
paint) was Yupo paper. It is a synthetic paper made from polypropylene. 
It’s interesting stuff as waterproof so the paint/ink sits on the 
surface, you can also get translucent versions. Jacksons used to do a 
sample set if you want to try it out  - though watch the size as one of 
the sample sets consisted of minuscule sheetst! It is often recommended 
for watercolour but I am not sure either of us liked the effect of that.

Look forward to seeing you on the 16th

Kind regards
Deborah
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