B, beep, beep... This just in: Jane LaFazio has posted a tutorial about using Absorbent Ground!
Having this new, small and portable camera is a boon to image and texture collection. This painted and repainted wall is normal fare here in New York, but wouldn't I like to be able to print a texture like it?
Last night I went to my 4th Moku Hanga class and got all three blocks carved. You can see a 'strike off' image in the middle. It needs COLOR, not just black, white and grey. I will research Japanese prints this week and see how I can make this image sing.
(I mentioned wanting to figure out how to do this on cloth to my teacher, she couldn't fathom not working on paper and is a traditionalist-poor thing.) :)
And here is a piece I have been playing with and hope to get to the wash and collage stage by the end of the week. It is retreat time of year again and I need a piece to work on. I don't know how much I have talked about here on the blog, I know I have boiled over on facebook, but I have been in a creative funk. I am tired of Melanie Testa's style, right now.
So, it is time to shake things up.
I am experimenting with deconstructed screen printing, in more ways than one (perhaps there is an article in it about my findings). And I am still working on incorpoating Random, Intuitive elements into my work. This piece is dreamy to me. It is too bad I didn't capture the poppy flowers off the the right side of the work, that really says dreamy~
More images to come.
The title of this post nods to this.
And even though it is wordy, go read this.
I'm really liking how your woodcut has turned out. The duck even has a bit of personality - brava on getting that out of the wood. Can't wait to see a finished print close up.
Speaking of your teacher's response, I went to the (very traditional) quilting store to get some metallic thread for free motion work, and endured a long rant on the impossibility of that proposition. Since I've seen it done all over Quilting Arts magazine, I went to the sewing machine store and they gave me my choice of 4 different thread brands with the pros and cons of each. People need to open up their minds. They don't know what they're missing!
Thanks for the heads up on Jane's tutorial!
hello, i dropped by and i thought i'd say hi, i enjoyed my visit and the peek at your wonderful projects
Oh Melanie, I love the bottom piece you are working on, it's captured my imagination with more questions, what will she do next, where will it lead her? Love that hand! That really speaks to me. I'll be back to watch the progress on it. Now I'm going to bed early and back tomorrow to more drawings of characters for my young students picture word cards of Aesop's Fable, The City and the Country Mouse. Then I hope to finish the sunflowers we are making for our wall. Then I will hit my journal this weekend with the question what attracts my eye. For now I know that I have a darker image of an emotionally disturbed boy that is needing to be journaled, ignoring that image is not helping so I've got charcoal to play with soon too. Take Care! Enjoy your new experiments and may all your inspiration that you give out come back to you doubled.