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November 05, 2005

Studio Saturday: slump

Here's the first colour all put together. I know I look really bitchy, but that will change. I promise the next time I show a picture of this there will actually have been some change to it. I used a crappy rough plywood for this image because I wanted the woodgrain to show, but now that I've printed one colour of all four panels, I'm sick of looking at that texture. I'm going to get some more, better quality wood, and make some other blocks to print with this, to shake up that surface texture a little.

I'm in a bit of a slump right now, and don't really feel like I'm producing much. This often happens to me in the fall for some reason, and I know I just have to work through it. This time last year I was productive because I had to be, because I had a big deadline to meet and also because I had been working on some things for a long time and they were all coming together. Now. . . I'm drifting, a bit. But I think the solution is just to keep plugging away and not worry about it too much (easier said than done, of course), work intuitively and let it happen.

Here's a wood block I've been carving away at, putting down an all-over texture of short lines to mimic the chatter that forms in a large cleared-out area of a relief print. I'm going to use it just as a layer of texture in between other press runs and underneath things. I had to stop working on it for about a week and a half to let my blister heal, then the other day I carved on it again for about half an hour and the skin where the blister had been started getting all loose again. So this may take a while. I probably need to sharpen my tools.

Posted by jodi at November 5, 2005 09:35 AM | categories:  in the studio

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Posted by: jae at November 5, 2005 10:17 AM