Showing posts with label mezzotint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mezzotint. Show all posts
Sunday, November 15, 2009
scattered underwear
It's been awhile here. Thank you for still checking in here...it really helps...
I've been moping around about this and that. Mainly: feeling neglected by sisters, being out of touch with cousins, and not being more there for my parents. Well, after a lot of back and forth in my head, it occurred to me that i really need to get a life. I don't have kids yet but i feel like i already know how it is not to be able to let your kids go and live their own lives. It sucks. Well luckily, i do still have my own friends and thank goodness for you guys. ♡
As for studio work, i'm still left with a lot of unfinished pieces that don't seem to be going anywhere. No red red days, you guys :(. I think i need to change my work routine or something. Too much emphasis on having the weekends free to make something that i end up wasting more time scattering about than getting anything done.
My little spoons of joy started not too long ago aren't too happy right now:
I still haven't been able to produce any good prints, even though the copper plates themselves look pretty nice to me:
Sadly realized that i don't really have it in me to be the kind of conceptual artists that i admire. How does one come up with awesome profound ideas? Yesterday, i didn't know where to go with the unfinished works laying around, so i started tearing up some paper. Before i knew it, i had a big bowl and a little bowl of it, and hours had passed.
Instead of getting depressed about how an entire free day passed without accomplishing anything 'substantial', i'm going to start being Okay about spending precious time like this. I like tearing paper. It's also prep work for making the spoons and whatever else later.
Categories:
drypoint,
mezzotint,
mixed media,
notes to self,
paper,
papier mache,
printmaking,
red,
spoons,
undies,
works in progress,
works:2009
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
one beginning
etching, mezzotint, drypoint & chine colle on hahnemuhle printmaking paper, image size 9.5 x 9.5 cm
My first signed print in 9 years. blah blah blah. i finally got one decent wiping of the plate. Feels like i'm just starting over again, not yet picking up where i left off. Totally not like riding a bike.
I'm wishing for magic with these:
and i need to go on my trails.
Categories:
chine colle,
mezzotint,
printmaking,
red,
works in progress,
works:2008
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
i think i'm going somewhere with this
an old print torn to strips
So this weekend i have started printing again. Took out some old plates from college years and also some more recent ones that i started
(before)
Cat, your hair is everywhere here.
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And this print i thought was horrible is okay after all...
Categories:
dried things,
drypoint,
hair,
mezzotint,
pink,
printmaking,
spoons,
studio,
works in progress
Saturday, August 4, 2007
hair
etching, drypoint & mezzotint on arches printmaking paper (cream color), image size 36 x 41 cm on 56 x 66 cm paper size
back of print showing the impression of the little plates printed together.
Categories:
drypoint,
etchings,
hair,
mezzotint,
printmaking,
works:1999
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
planet red*
My shelftop of little things and the big red planet candle that i bought all the way from Denver.
*For your curiousity, Uschi. :).
Categories:
drypoint,
favorite things,
mezzotint,
paper,
papier mache,
pottery,
printmaking,
studio,
wire,
works in progress,
works:2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
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