i fixed the ugly one

I have made doll decisions:

Their faces will be lithographs printed on fabric and their bodies will be leather worms.

They will hang and feel hairy

I have started sketches for dolls + possible layouts for an exhibition
Tonight I will begin constructing the dolls and see what happens.

I don't know if I am about frames or not. I think if I do decide to frame my prints, I need to use found frames & they need not be uniform.

I was also thinking of printing the lithographs on fabric and quilting it.


I am really 100 percent about the crafts here.

LIFE IS STRIFE

I drew this because I was sad:

I want a beautiful apple

I drew this:




I like this:

The human mind delights in finding pattern- so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it. - stephen j gould

making things to fill the time between sandwiches

I wanted to try and have a new plate completed before I submit my portfolio to graduate schools. This guy is giving me trouble as I put the hard-ground on too thick in a rush and baked it for too long (so it flakes off as I am trying to scratch into it). I haven't had access to a studio, so I couldn't fix it and just decided to work with the flaking.

my first application is due on the 10th. hopefully I can manage a good print of this by then.

ART SCHOOL HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE YOU

map for my next plate

mountain WHAT REVIEW WHATTTT

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAaaa

this is a thing:


I am carrying mixed feelings about this repetition non-sense at this point.

maybe I should just let them be? alone? really they have a friend already, with the mirror and all. I just mean they might be overwhelming enough as it is.





I exposed this plate (finally got the exposure time and the solution right) and will be able to print it after the advanced print class finishes up this friday. right now they are busy-bees in the litho-room so I need to give it some space. I don't know if this is even something I will want to include or if I will stick with etching. But I am definitely going to get a few prints out of it, some blood and some sweat went into getting it this nice.

I will also be exposing another drawing for some multi-plate action.

over break I want to work on a drawing to expose to this big silk-screen that was gifted to me. maybe something to work with one of the etchings?
also, I bought a new plate and would like to finish it before the semester starts again.

after we thought about it. does he look like a turtle because he is slow? and what kind?????????????????????????????? of slow

a big plate is done

I made the one on the right appear to be slightly more responsive to its child--turtle child.

Almost-symmetry also relates to how i am dealing with multiplicity with minor changes. part of the viewing experience becomes an attempt to figure out what is different between the two sides.

just kidding. i am not going to make paintings.

just kidding. i am going to make paintings.

these prints are little stories

first is progress:



other stuff:

My variation from print to print in a whole row was going to be tiny oil paintings. but I have changed my mind, I need something more objective.

I thought about using photographs in the windows. something that changes with time or changes to a rhythm. a documentation of uneeded extravagance that becomes vital to bringing interest to the entire composition.

I will do cultural habits related to the seduction of aesthetics or a belief system. different ones.

things like owning inedible pets& eating dessert & and various forms of decoration that have nothing to do with camouflage or intended awareness

I don't know if photographic images will look proper. if they don't, I will alter the photographs so they function well with only positive and negative and make screens with them. then I can screenprint the windows and the techniques will likely fit nicely together.

also my next plate absolutely has to be vertical, I think. I want a totem pole.

IDKLOL LTFMR/ INFINITE PRINT

they look like wallpaper for a bathroom! it is beautiful.

I PROBABLY HAVE SWINE FLU. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

oh and i have been working on this huge piece of meat

This week my goal was to spend a little less time making and little more time on why i am making and what it is doing. I am getting there. But I still spend copious amounts of time piddling around in the print studio, so I am technically consciously managing my time differently, but I think I am spending more time everywhere. THIS IS GOOD, though. Just as long as I don't catch that H1N1, you know.


THIS PLATE HAS BEEN A HUGE PROBLEM CHILD:





this was my first plate this semester and I tried putting the environment/textures on the same plate as the image. SILLY GOOSE! I just keep loosing my image. so my goal was to figure out what to do with this little shit. I tried drypoint things, sharpie marker and alcohol painting and stop-out things and aquatint things and then I finally just protected the image and put the whole thing in the acid bath to open-bite it down a bit. then I did a rollover.

I like it right now, this print has a little bit of a rollermark issue, but I like the atmosphere that my frustration with the space built. so I think this is something that is going to continue to happen with this image.




THIS DOG IS VERY INEFFICIENT:

So I have spent the whole last week trying to figure out what I am really going to do with these images. I tried spray paint stencils, tiny mylar plates, some rediculous experiments with iron oxide, prismacolor markers, prismacolor pencils, paper carving and blahhhaujhsjkahsjhajkhjksh

Nothing looked right. UNTIL TODAY. I cut windows into the prints where the halos would be and put tiny paintings in each window. This one used a study on paper that I did last semester and cut into squares to adhere to the back of the print.

So this is round 1 & not colors that I am entirely fond of. But this is definitely something I plan to pursue further.

and this will allow for me to paint as well as make prints--- I can just cut my paintings (on paper) up into little bits and stretch them out onto these prints. each one is little gallery.

I am excited to show this to thylias & & & I need even more concept editing now. hopefully the beast will stop growing soon so I can settle and get a reasonable write-up.

PROJECT BLURB


I intend to make a series of copperplate etchings that expand on the idea of cultural aesthetics and habits as well as the efficient or inefficient use of resources and how this relates to the use of time. I plan to carry this out by collecting imagery from modern primitive, past primitive as well as modern and past developed cultures to create a hybrid culture. The imagery will be rendered using obviously time intensive patterns that will be collected from varied found textiles or other displays of excessive decoration of useful objects. The patterns will build the figures which will be involved in a greater pattern, as I will print a great deal of the same image to utilize repetition as an aesthetic device. I also plan to make several large scale drawings of singular characters from the hybrid culture to make the works as a whole more relatable as the viewer can more easily connect to something life-sized. Additionally, I will be working on a hybrid language heavy with alliteration that will hopefully be largely unspeakable, a composition of readable sounds. These sounds will be printed in colored ink on the same color of paper, so they are both unreadable and mostly invisible.