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December 10, 2005

Studio Saturday: a beauty way to go

In less than eight hours I'll be back in Canada. I like hanging out here at Sandy and Bob's place, but still, this day just isn't going to go fast enough. I still can't really believe that there's a way to get to Detroit from here in two hours; I have never flown in a big airplane before. Really! So expect to see some very boring out-the-plane-window pictures later on, because I'm just a small-town hick girl who is all amazed at the big old airplanes and how fast they can go. Also, this will be the first time ever that I have remembered NOT to wear my chain mail belt when I'm going to be walking through a metal detector, so this time (unlike that time at the Library of Congress) the security people won't have to make fun of me and call me Britney Spears.

So. Here are some details of a drawing I worked on this week.

I started this figure drawing and sort of pooped out after I had the basic gesture down, then as I was sitting in the studio doodling in my sketch book I thought maybe I should just doodle on the drawing instead. So now the figure has these marker and pen map-like lines on it, and it looks pretty funny. I'll probably print on it later, because I can never just leave something alone, I always have to overdo it with the covering up.

Like this. These are some of the prints with the chatter on them. The one in the bottom right corner I'm going to pull out and put in the "done (for now)" pile, since I have two of them. The rest will have more layers.

I know, you're all thinking, "good doG, not this again". Here's that boring old woodcut with a layer of the chatter on it. Did I show you this already? I probably did.

I'm starting a second set of blocks for this image, with a smoother wood this time so that the final prints won't have so much of the rough wood grain in them (this will also make me look like a less shitty printer, since right now the printing on this image is just downright crap). Now that my big shipment of paper has arrived, I'm going to do at least 20 more of these(for a total of 30) so I'll have the option of filling a room with them.

A break from this stuff is going to do me good, I think. I decided at the last minute not to pack my woodcutting tools, and I'm just going to have a vacation from making art; the only work-related thing I'm going to do while I'm at home is to draw a page every day (starting today) in my brand new Moleskine sketchbook. I need to get back in the habit, so I'm going to set myself the challenge to do a page a day, and I'll put them all up on my Flickr page.

So what did I pack to work on? The Must Have. The Urban Aran (progress pictures tomorrow). A top-down green cardigan that's just past the armpits, and I just realized I forgot to pack any more of the green wool. I plan to switch to brown for the bottom half, so if I happen to get the other two done I'll just have to cast on for the brown section (I did remember to pack lots of the brown yarn, at least) and graft them together after. Also the graduation socks, which are virtually done except for one toe graft. So I'll have FO photos tomorrow too, if I can tear myself away from Peter and the Fats and the snow outside and, you know, hugging the walls and floor in my dorky gratitude to be home in our very own house, long enough to take photos.

Posted by jodi at December 10, 2005 11:02 AM | categories:  in the studio

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