Kris drawing.

Kris is drawing out an idea on paper before transfer onto the grained glass.

Kari and Kaz both drawing.

Kari and Kaz drawing with the 8046 pencils and brushes, water and black 'Magic Color' at the ready!

Elizabeth looking.

Elizabeth is concentrating on the wet drawing on the grained glass. When it dries out then you decide if its ready to use as the positive transparency for making a solarplate. We expose the art work over solarplate for 1min 30 sec under UV light. Next we expose the plate covered by aquatint screen for another 1 min 30 sec. The fine squiggles of the aquatint screen provide tooth for the ink.

Hester drawing on glass

The special pencil, recommended by Dan Welden, is the Stabilo 8046 aquarellable watercolour pencil. It blocks out the UV beautifully dry, and if you add water, can be used as a wash.

Grained glass prints by John Denton.

The grained glass original drawings are in the foreground and some of the early prints spread out to compare results using wet / dry, Recycled paper/ incisioni, yellowXpress 5000 / Manuka etching press.

Grained Glass/Solarplate Workshop

John Denton carefully pulls a print off the solarplate created using a grained glass drawing.
A series of about 10 prints were made by John using the yellowXpress 5000 and a combination of wet and dry paper. The papers were Homeprint recycled white and Incisioni 220gsm

Grained Glass Workshop at Toi Poneke.

Basia and Jane drawing and painting on their grained glass in preparation for making a solarplate at the whole day workshop with John Brebner at Fiona Sullivan's Artsight Studio in Wellington.