New Considerations

02/25

Today was a lot of drawing in the studio. My camera was, unfortunately, dead. I was drawing in various locations from 1:30 to 6:00, so when I have a working camera, I will post pictures of the sketches I have been working on. After some consideration, I will try to have a total of eight different litho works printed, I will at least attempt a wood block print and I would like to create five different designs for screen printing.

Uh Oh

02/20

I met with Heather today to confirm that I was doing everything up to standards with the blog. The previous three blogs were posted on a delay in the hopes that I would get them right. Fingers crossed that I managed it this time.

Research Day

02/19

       I haven’t done a lot of work lately, but I have started researching woodblock printing videos so that I can at least try it once. I’m much more interested in screen printing and lithography than woodblock now, but I will still try it once. Some of the videos I have been watching are listed below. I was in the studio from 2:00 – 5:00.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dliF74ojOho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2hguBvmZb4

this second one seems like the most promising as a how-to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLHP__xuZD8

I also found this vid (that follows) that claims you can use white vinegar as an etching solution for litho.  We shall see maybe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXaimUkCVU0

Success!

02/15

       Wednesday ended up being a very lonely day in the studio. I working on getting a drawing ready and printed a nine-series run of it during my 2:00-6:00 studio hours. I’m including a series of three different prints pulled in this series. The idea that I was getting at with this drawing was somewhere between juxtaposing the characteristics of certain super heroes onto me and being brutally honest with the shape of my body. I’m not certain that I completely managed it, but I’m planning to go back into a few of these to more accurately represent my body. (Photo error! I'll reshoot)

Lots of work, Little progress

02/12

       Monday was full of drawing for my studio hours as well as my at-home studio time. I was in the studio from 1:30 to 5:30 working on different drawings. I wasn’t very happy with any of the drawings that I ended up doing. I have one that is promising and I will post in my next entry.

Friday Progress

Friday progress.... posted on Saturday! The experiments I ran over the week were... well I think I'll let them do the talking. Enjoy the picture-post. :)

Monday Experiments

Monday's experiments were interesting and I think they were also successful. I was experimenting with collage style lithography to see how the levels of paper effected the quality of the prints. The texture that was added from multiple layers of paper after going through the press was awesome.

A note for myself, water based glue makes the prints unpredictable in nature. If this is a desired effect, that can be an awesome thing. If it isn't though... it's really going to screw up your print.

I did not have my camera on me, but I will bring it with me tomorrow and have pictures in Friday post.

Three Day Weekend Haze

This impromptu three day weekend had me a little out of it. I had meant to post yesterday for my second post of the week, but it got away from me.

My plan for posting, in the future, is to post on Tuesday and Fridays. I know I have difficulty keeping up with blogs, so hopefully scheduled posting days will help with making it happen.

For the coming week I have a few more copier-litho tests that I want to run. I'll update on Tuesday after I've seen how some of them go tomorrow.