. . . Isolation . . .

It was a long day of burning screens, printing between classes, washing out emulsion and burning more screens . . . Using two screens, I printed a four color print between 6am and 3pm . . . Not to mention teaching three classes. It is an edition of 25.

2nd color

Third color

Final color. A bit of motion blur on the photo . . . I think my arms were shaking a bit.

Reading Print - 1st Pass

First pass at this little print, the mid tones are too dark so I'm going to go back in and carve out a little more to lighten them up. Printed 7-9 prints in sketch books and one on a single sheet of paper, I'm probably applying too much pressure when printing as the fine lines get lost—hopefully I'll find the right touch tomorrow when taking another swing at it.

2 WIP Prints

Two in-progress prints, trying to get the smaller one completed for a crit this upcoming Friday. The larger one I'd like to have done in mid- April. I've got a painting or two I want to try transferring it to.

. . . Spray paint . . .

A new $1 doily from Goodwill . . . With a large scale map . . .

Detail

D I S T A N T . . .

Yellow . . . Third color . . .

Detail . . .

Fourth color, black . . .

Detail . . . 

Detail . . . 

Detail . . .

Distant

First screen of a four color print. 

Detail

  

Second color, sorry the images are not sharper . . . 

Detail

An Arm

A little progress on the big Caleb and Jacob block. Hoping to really get after it this weekend.

Moleskine Lino

Apparent . . .

Two fresh editions of the same print, one with two colors and one edition with the final color.

Above is the single color edition. 

The two color print has a subtle radial gradient and a large letterforms in full intensity. I was thinking that this might capture the magic of some of the test prints.

Here is a detail of a test print over one of my student's prints. His technique / aesthetic and mine are quite different, but they compliment each other quite nicely.

Paint_Print

Finally took a pass at printing on top of one of the large paintings. Some of the panel seams and random paint drips resulted in sporadic patches where the ink did not transfer. Overall the result was appealing enough to keep experimenting with it. Printing on the painting got me thinking about mixing and moving paint around . . . it's been almost a year since I picked up a brush! 

. . . Astronaut . . .

Moving out of the Angel series and working with other celestial beings. 2 color screenprint.

Detail from a test print.

Test print detail, expected.

Family Dinner Pano Print

The complexity of this one might have proven to be too much. While certain aspects of the composition and rendering work, other areas are far too ambiguous to read well. Maybe that's okay. The sketchbook crops are interesting to me, I'd like the entire print to be as well. Might go back in and carve more on this one.