Welcome to Teresa Robertson's blog - an online diary of latest artwork
The photo on the left has been sent by a client who'd like a painting of their brownstone in New York. I've had to more or less guess what the gate looks like behind the car. If/when the client approves the pencil rough, I'll take it to ink, then watercolour.
Here's the card I started to cut last week then had to put on hold while I worked on other jobs. The design was requested by Carol at Louis Farouk (Highbury Park). I've been given most of my ideas for card designs through requests from shops.
This is the finished screenprinted Housing Justice card. We have developed a little family firm over the last few months with retired husband and 'home-educated' 17 year old helping out...
This is a detail of the most recent 'house' painting (see pencilled stage in 7 Nov blog). I've jpegged it over to the client and will hand it over if/when they're happy with it.
This photo shows the 2nd colour (sepia) having been printed on to the 1st colour (white with silver glitter sprinkled while ink wet). All my A6 cards, except ones with lettering, are produced in this way, 4 at a time. For the ones with lettering, I have to 'flip' the two that face the 'wrong' way and fit them into place with masking tape. The images shown here will be cut and stuck on to recycled card after the client has OK'd the sample.
This picture shows the papercut ready for the final layer of the card mentioned below. This was the 3rd colour - sepia - going on top of ochre (for the church) and red (for the clocktower). It was only at this stage I realised the top image would be in reverse, so I cut out the three layers and flipped them over and reprinted.
This picture shows the pencil stage of a card I'm going to produce for someone leaving Christ Church in Highbury. The pencilling is on A4 paper folded in half and I'll cut through both layers. When I come to printing, I'll be able to print two images at a time on my A4 screen. I'll do a limited print run in three colours, ochre, sepia and red.
Housing Justice have commissioned me to design their Christmas card. They've just emailed to say they've chosen the top right hand pencil as the design they would like (this is the second lot of roughs I'd done, edging closer to what was required - see roughs below). I will now trace it through on to 100gm good quality photocopy paper, thinking about how I'll separate into two colours...
This is the latest 'house' painting that I'm working on. The Matthews family bid for it in a fundraising auction at St John's school, Highbury Vale, a couple of years ago. They wanted to wait until their youngest child (on the pillar, on the right) wasn't just a baby, so now I'm ready to work on the painting.
This piece of A4, 100gm good quality photocopy paper has been folded in 4, then I've pencilled my new design on the top right hand corner section of the folded paper. The photo shows the first cuts having been made.
