Elvira

I'm just leaving the small upstate New York town that's been my home for the past four months. Sniff. Next stop: the big city.

One of the nice traditions at this school that's somewhat lacking at mine back home is that students trade their work. It was fun picking up souvenirs like this woodcut of one of the natives, which was rendered in a single all-night marathon. I think it turned out well.


I actually wanted to post five of my own prints but I never got them back from my teachers in time (they had to photograph them for a book they were making of the class' work). Since I've got the plates I guess I'll re-print them once I get back but it's still a bit of a drag.

Tardy

This is getting to be a bad habit, but once again I'm going to apologize for the inconsistent posting. I actually finished a painting for a crit today but there's one area that just irks me and I don't want to post any pictures up until I fix the bloody thing. Yeah, I'm a little bit anal.


This here's a test run for a silkscreen that I made a couple of weeks ago. For some reason I never posted it. I haven't played around with it as much as I want to but eventually I'll run the thing in a variety of colours over some painted grounds.

Starting From Scratch

Here's a detail shot of the oil painting from my current two piece project. Since the other half was a print, I decided to emulate the feel of an etching by scratching in some rough lines with a nail. Unfortunately, I ended up with a painting that looks like an etched print and a print that looks like an oil painting. Sigh.

The Public Eye

An oil painting/monoprint tandem project. The two images are meant to relate and bounce off one another. I was going for a two-panel sequence of a security camera type of deal.



I'm really pleased with how the monoprint's cracked static image turned out but I'm afraid it's not very congruent with the scratched-in style of the oil painting. I don't consider these fully resolved pieces and will try and work back into one or the other or both tomorrow morning before class and see what I can do. We'll see how it turns out. At this point I just need some shuteye.

Darwin's Blade

This is my first print in a year and a half, a chine-colle. I was a bit rusty around the press but once I got back into the flow of things it was all smooth sailing.


Our project was to produce art that was created by a system of chance. For this particular print, I clicked on the random article button on Wikipedia and then did a Google Image search of the results ("Galveodon", a prehistoric Spanish mammal). The first image was this bizarre image of a half-man half-ape Charles Darwin which I then replicated and superimposed over the Wikipedia text.

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Interesting sound effect for a swing set.


I'm currently suffering through a printmaking assignment and thought I'd post this in the interim. Hopefully, some much needed sleep + a last minute adrenaline rush will produce a wondrous result before 1.20PM tomorrow.

Evidence Locker

An exercise from my printmaking class (to be used in a future project) in which we had to trace around objects using ink and a wooden skewer. See if you can guess what they are.





From top to bottom: a knight from a chess set, a crumpled leaf, a razor, and a palette knife.