REPETITION BY ISSY ODDIE

G'day folks!  Here is the lovely, Issy Oddie's Repetition submission....all the way from Vietnam!  For those of you who don't know Issy, she relocated to live in Ho Chi Minh City last year.  Her submission is a beautiful slice of her daily life.  Thanks Issy!  (Come home soon!)

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From Issy.....

speel:

last minute whip up!

had dreams of a repeat pattern made up from elements of vietnamese daily life..... perhaps an etching or even just a sketch.... but ran out of time!

so here's a little collage of iphone shots from the daily life i've been living in Vietnam for the last year.... no day is ever the same! just a constant barrage of beautiful, smelly, rough, old, fresh, loud, dirty, crazy, funny moments.

going across from top left to right.....

fresh fish_HoTram beach 

bananas (chuoi)_Tan Dinh market HCMC 

fence_Go Vap HCMC

crazy building_road to PP HCMC

pottery baskets_Hanoi 

pottery moulds_Hanoi

sand bags_D2 HCMC

Tet flowers + flags_D2 HCMC

sea snails_HoTram beach

limes (chanh)_Hanoi

fake flower vendor_Tan Binh HCMC

packaged goods_road stop Mekong Delta

silk loom_Hanoi

shoe moulds_shoe factory HCMC outskirts

fruit shop_Binh Than HCMC

coconuts (dua)_DaLat 

chillies_outside my place in Tan Dinh HCMC

pagoda flags and umbrella_Binh Than HCMC

ceremonial hangings_Hanoi

Tet melons_Ben Thanh market

'REPETITION'. MONTH 16

Hello Art Clubbers!

I hope you are well and enjoying the lead up to Christmas?  

This month's theme has been chosen by Issy Oddie, who is a Melbourne gal, currently living in Vietnam.  Repetition is her chosen theme...a good one, hey?!  Could be visual, musical, sculptural, performance based?  What things do you repeat on a daily basis?  

Get your creative chops around it and enjoy.  Submissions are due by January the 4th 2014....next year!

Have fun!

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BOOT SCOOTIN' ALONG BY ISSY ODDIE

Another wonderful art club submission for the Western theme is here and it is the cowgirl who chose the Western theme herself, Miss Issy Oddie! 

 

From Issy...."For some reason as soon as I thought of the theme I got a mental block! So quickly sketched up my boots on Friday night and then etched them and printed them Saturday :)
I love etching!"

 

Thanks Issy!

 

 

 

 

CROWNS OF CHRISTMAS LUNCH BY ISSY ODDIE

These are my pictures for reminisce.....

Initial sketch is based on 4 paper christmas cracker crowns.
To me they are the crown of family xmas gatherings and the impending excess that makes a traditional holiday so brilliant, good times, good times :)

So I went from a pen and watercolour picture, to a basic hard ground etching, then I accidentally did a really heavy Aqua tint... So then I had to sand it back, and then I added some chine colle for a little bit of colour. I like how they’ve ended up a little abstract, could almost look like a mountain scape.

THE RUSSIAN DECK BY ISSY ODDIE

Okay I have a terrible camera... the images aren’t great... But at least I finally completed my first around the kitchen table project! Woot Woot! 

So Russia, I was thinking decorative Easter eggs, Faberge eggs, antique matchboxes, big floral textile patterns, vodka, tsars, fur hats, ballerinas.... 
In the end I really wanted to go matchboxes, but then came across an old deck of cards my step dad bought in Siberia 30 years ago... I have a bit of a thing for cards, so thought I’d just chuck Nicholas II onto a card with a couple of Faberge eggs… 

I did a bit of copper etching last year and was feeling a little rusty, so this project was a good excuse to get back into it…

1+2 – Initial sketches of Nicholas II 

3. Said Siberian cards.

 4. Mock up with borders, clubs and Russian writing, translation: Issy Oddie Around the 

kitchen table May 2012.

 5. Image scratched into copper plate with hard ground base (the hard ground protects the copper from the acid so only the lines will be scratched) ** the copper used was the back of another picture so is fairly scratched up already, as you’ll see in the finished picture.

 6. First print from plate.

 7. Wanted to add shading to background of card… so I did a 3 step aquatint… can vaguely see the copper is duller in areas.

 8. One of a few prints after the aquatint, I stuffed the block out which added a couple of ‘’rustic’ patches to the edge of one side of the card. Also rubbed the ink back too much on the image of the card… but kind of like it, gives it a ghostly look. 

9. Final piece! I sanded back the aquatint to reduce the contrast of the rustic patch and 

also get rid of some of the aquatint graininess.
Done and done.