more conte crayon and watercolour on watercolour paper or Janson History of Art Tome handmade paper.

watercolour and conte crayon on watercolour paper or homemade Janson History of Art Tome paper.

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'water discharging from a canyon on Forbidden Plateau', 11"x15", watercolour

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conte crayon and watercolour

This past weekend I was part of an exhibition in our village which consisted of some local artists; John Mortensen, April Lafferty and myself, with some visiting artists from Vancouver. The visiting artists were from Vancouver's Taiwanese arts community; Shya-fen Billington, Wu-Tzanq Liaw, and Chih-Hsiung Chien. Chih-Hsiung Chien brought a nifty little printing press manufactured in Taiwan and Japan and spent part of the weekend producing lovely little prints. Apparently his friend in Taipei is importing some of the components from Japan, and making the little presses to sell in kits. Not for sale here, and apparently just starting up in Taiwan; considerable interest from elementary schools as a way of introducing kids to the printmaking process. He let me do a drawing and print it up; very nice postcard size arrangement. Apparently you can buy bigger outfits. It works similar to the old Gestetners of my childhood, however the paper is thinner and more sensitive to the pencil. It provides an interesting line quality, as you can see above, and drawing on the tissue isn't too awkward.


Chih-Hsiung with my finished drawing on the template.


Inking the drawing.


Printing the drawing.


You can make about 40 prints apparently.

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'Myra Falls', 11"x15", watercolour

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'Perseverance Creek one', 11"x15", watercolour

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'toward Union Bay from Courtenay', 11"x15", watercolour


'toward Comox Glacier and Mirren Lake', 11"x15", watercolour


'The Red Pillar from Black Cat Mountain', 15"x22", watercolour


'view to Comox from Courtenay', 11"x15", watercolour

went to see a fella from our life drawing group perform in town; he sang and played zither, harp and guitar; some of his own compositions and a lot of old folk songs from all around Europe and even Quebec; some of them sung in archaic English and German. Really old stuff, very enjoyable and pleasant to sketch him all the while.