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March 03, 2005

Come see my mess*

Today I did some more printing. I've taken 34 of my most recent failed lithos, including all of the ones that you saw a while back with the dumbass headless pink body on them, and slapped a brand new image on top of them. On Monday I started with an opaque yellow on two thirds of the prints and a dark green on the rest; I just can't stand to do a whole press run with one colour, and prefer to switch it up a little, which is probably why I make so many butt-ugly prints, eh? Today I put orange for a second colour on most of the yellows and some of the greens, then a layer of burgundy on all of them.

Here's the image on the stone:

I started with a photo transfer, which only really transferred well in the top half of the image. So I stupidly filled in some areas in the bottom with lacquer where I wanted it to be really dark (now those areas are smoother than the rest and really stick out, like that line along the top of the underpants--ugh). My old image started rolling up underneath, and it was a smaller image so you can see the line of the edge of it, right down the left hand side of the stone there. Since that area all filled in, now it looks like a photo outside the line and like a drawing inside the line, where I had to scrape stuff out with snake slip and etch it to try to make it go away. I guess I shouldn't have levigated the stone while I was sick, because I didn't do a good enough job; so much for my all-powerful wrestling persona.

Unfortunately I can't show you how this image alone prints, because I only printed it on old stuff (I like to do a few on new paper, but I forgot to buy any). Here it is with not too much underneath:

Aaack! She looks like she's about to have her jugular pecked open by a bird.

So the head printed a lot better than the body did, and looks like it belongs in a different picture. Next week I'll counteretch the whole thing and redraw the body in really dark and solid with lithotine washes, then I can scratch the hell out of it with snake slip and acid to get the same effect as on the head. I really like how the head looks all film noir, but the body just looks like crap right now. But I can fix it!

Here's a really scary one:

You won't like me when I'm angry.

The solid layer of lime green underneath was already there; I love how it makes me look like a cross between the Hulk and the Green Lady of Hay Swamp. Watch out! I might kill your girlfriend and steal your 2-4.

The ones with orange in them are the nicest; here's two drying in the rack:

I'm thinking the next layer will be purple and Pepto-Bismol pink, because those are the colours I think will look the nastiest and most horrible (sometimes this works, and doesn't end up looking nasty at all).

*this is what the too-cute baby Kiernan said to me while he stroked my leg with his paint-covered hand.

Posted by jodi at March 3, 2005 05:18 PM | categories:  art stuff

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