Tania Tutorial Notes 27th Feb 2023

Watercolour owl has movement and has more of the felt sense of an animal moving

Etchings of bees are from the collector’s scientific gaze and have lost the phenomenological feel that earlier drawings had

Look at photographer Anne Noble’s (Wellington NZ) work – she photographs dead things but the interrogation in her work is fascinating. high-powered magnified cameras

https://dphoto.co.nz/assignment-anne-noble-ten-thousand-waking-bees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=funlilSvkJc&t=80s&ab_channel=WellingtonCityLibraries

https://www.bartleyandcompany.art/availableartworks/anne-noble

https://nzpoetryshelf.com/2021/10/06/poetry-shelf-review-anne-nobles-conversatio-in-the-company-of-bees

Printing a swarm would be a good use of the etching process

Avoid dinky and static

Layer stuff up – use different shaped plates

Retain the shamanic conversation – leaf green on large bee print has a sense of life about it

Experiment – perhaps great blobs of wax

Avoid the virtuous trap of becoming too immersed in the craft of printing

To get paintings to become luminous – build layers on a light ground, linseed oil diluting the colour

The deer painted by candlelight has a distorted quality – partly because the original image was captured on a small wildlife camera but the combo of natural inks, and the weird gaze is interesting

Stone lantern with slumped glass or gold lining

Interesting meditation space made from straw

Look at Buckminster Fuller