Hair Pieces 2

The fruit of yesterday’s labours: Hair Pieces 2, a brand new mini-zine to be launched at next Sunday’s 2016 Sticky Institute Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair (FOTP 2016).

Pictured above: developmental stages of Hair Pieces 2, mini-zine, 2016, colour photocopy, 10 x 7.5 cm, edition: 100. (Click on images to enlarge).

Its sister zine, Hair Pieces (2015) will also be putting in an appearance at FOTP 2016. It can be viewed HERE.

Work resumes on 'Hair Pieces' mini-zine

Following last week's setback (see previous post) the artwork for Hair Pieces is back from the printer in a new, vastly improved state and the process of folding, cutting and transforming each A4 sheet into an eight page mini-zine is well under way.

Considerable progress has also been made on other mini-zines in development. They include Tattooed Faces, Tattooed Faces in Living Colour and 2015 Mothstralian Stamps. 

The above mentioned zines were made by combining my own paintings, relief prints and drawings with iPad apps. The eight-panel grid that is the basis for these mini-zines is my own invention - I'm rather proud of it. The grid was constructed in the astonishingly versatile Strip Designer. The coloured borders and selected backgrounds were also developed in this app. The panels containing text and image were designed in Pic Collage. 

Trial proof of 'Hair Pieces' mini-zine

Over the past few months we've been developing several new mini-zines and have just taken a trial proof of our latest effort, Hair Pieces. Immediately following this, we had hoped to charge ahead and print a minimum of half the edition of 100, but because of a technical problem (a mysterious wavy texture in the background of some images) a brief return to the metaphorical drawing board (i.e. my iPad) was required. The problem is now solved and printing is set to resume in the next couple of days.

Moth Woman Press mini-zines, including this one, are folded and cut from a single sheet of A4 paper.

Pictured below is yesterday's trial proof, folded and ready to cut.

'Hair Pieces' - a mini-zine in progress

In recent weeks most of my time and energy has been spent in the studio, developing a new series of paintings on wood; they are an extension of the Homo-insecta watercolours and linocuts that I began in 2013. To view the paintings, visit my Art Blog HERE.

Meanwhile, back at Moth Woman Press, we haven't been entirely idle. Previewed directly below is the artwork for the front and back covers of Hair Pieces, our latest mini-zine in the making.