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December 03, 2005
Studio Saturday: wasting time
I've been meaning to show you this:
This is my self portrait from back in August; it's been reworked by Jeremy Hughes, a grad student in painting, as a project in our drawing class. I'm really happy with the improvements he made, and I'm glad that I'm the one who gets to keep it. I didn't do this good a job on Claire's drawing.
So far this weekend I've done nothing but waste time in the studio, first methodically cutting up a large image in photoshop so that I could print it in sections on 8.5 by 11 paper, then realizing that the image was the wrong size and having to resize and cut it all up again, then painstakingly putting 43 little pieces back together. Then I decided to scrap the whole thing and get my image onto the woodblocks a different way, so I came home to cool off from that and to work on some drawing instead. So, no new woodblocks to show. And no drawings yet either, since I'm still dicking around with gluing down my little woven maps and sewing lines over them before I staple it all up on the wall to draw on.
Two shipments came in this week, 500 sheets of Rives BFK and a box of almost 50 t-shirts. I've swapped a hundred sheets of the paper to a colleague for some Pronto plates, and just watch how quickly I can burn through 400 pieces of paper. Expect to see t-shirts up in the shop by the end of January.
Posted by jodi at December 3, 2005 05:09 PM | categories: art stuff : in the studio
Comments
ever hear of a program called the rasterbator? it cuts the images up for you maybe you should look into it. I did a 5'-8' mural on my wall with it
Posted by: Kayla at December 3, 2005 09:17 PM
WOW!
Posted by: Becky at December 4, 2005 12:16 PM
Did you print that image over collaged bits of maps? It looks like that might be the case...which would be really damn cool.
Posted by: Cari at December 4, 2005 12:19 PM
Did you buy your paper from Stephen Kinsella? I'm ordering 50 sheets of bfk grey 44x30 and they have the best price I could find at $4.82 per sheet. I haven't ordered yet. Any suggestions?
Posted by: Josh at December 4, 2005 11:40 PM
I really, really like the collaborative self portrait. I can see why you're happy to keep it :-) the colours and the geometrical shapes really play well with the lines of the nude.
As a sometime printmaker I was very happy to stumble across your blog recently.
Cheers Claire
Posted by: Claire at December 5, 2005 02:36 AM