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January 29, 2006
Studio Saturday Sunday morning
It's just a restless feeling. . .
I spent all evening yesterday making 5 months of my chat log with Peter into .gif images, printing them out on top of these litho/woodcuts, then covering them all with a layer of transparent base to protect the inkjet ink from wiping off. The text is impossible to see until you get up close:
There are five panels (it looks like ten above, but they'll be sewn together in pairs). I had a bunch of pronto plate stuff I was going to print on here as well, but the prints are way too busy already, the text is obscured already to the point where half of it is unreadable (this is what I wanted), and I'm really digging the surface of these just the way they are. So I'm just going to skip ahead to what I'd planned to be the last run, and layer the Venus Prodigiosa block over them tomorrow, in white. Now that I've taken the background off, she won't cover much.
I also started cutting away at this block again, clearing out the background like the others.
I think I'll just cut out a rough sort of halo around the figure and carve some patterns into the background, then pull some prints with her that way before clearing it out completely. This was originally supposed to be a companion piece for the Thirteen Girls, but then I decided that wasn't necessary, and I haven't made many prints from this block yet.
Tomorrow I'm going to print out the chat logs on some new paper, and maybe some other prints that aren't so heavy, so I'm starting with more visible text to print my pronto plates onto. I'm also going to do some letterpress printing, and maybe play around a little with our brand new wacom tablet, if I can wrest it from Jessica's hands (she did some awesome stuff with it last night). It's way fun, and is on its way to becoming the most sought-after tool in our shop.
Here's the promised close-up of the vintage wooden buttons I used on my Must Have cardigan. I think I can call them vintage, since these days that just means "old". I cut them off an old sweater about ten years ago, and have been hoarding them ever since.
There will be more knitting news tomorrow, and some of it's exciting, so stay tuned. No time now, though; I've got plates to draw.
Posted by jodi at January 29, 2006 11:49 AM | categories: art stuff : in the studio
Comments
Reminder to self: Never get involved with an artist. My chat logs as art? *shudder*
VERY cool stuff, though. Seriously.
And I love that you can just make out, "I love you even if you do suck". THAT's committment!
:-)
Posted by: NWJR at January 29, 2006 12:56 PM
I like the chat logs as art. They're intriguing. I'm also enjoying the education about printmaking, fwiw. And hanging on tight for exciting knitting news, of course.
Posted by: Snow at January 29, 2006 06:20 PM
omg, I love what you did with the chat text. It's beautiful.
Posted by: bonnie at January 29, 2006 08:51 PM
I like the distance shots...they look like dream cities to me.
look forward to tomorrow and next week.
Posted by: Danielle at January 29, 2006 08:53 PM