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August 09, 2007
what we've been working on this week
I needed to check out the undergrad litho shop since I'll be teaching a class in there starting next week, so I've been teaching Peter lithography! Here's his first print, finished today:
It's a four-colour reduction, printed in process colours (yellow, cyan, magenta, black), with a cyan tint base layer dropped on top of the whole thing at the end.
Here's a close-up of that beautiful water wash in the clouds:
The fact that he enjoyed doing this and wants to do more thrills me to pieces; I've been wanting to get him into the print shop for a long, long time. And I think he could soon be better at this than I am, because he actually cares about knowing what's happening in all of the chemical magicalness, whereas I am usually content to just toss stuff around and see what happens (ahem! I won't be teaching that way, though. Honest).
I've stayed away from lithography since coming to grad school, mostly because I don't like the press we have at Green Street. But forcing myself to bone up before plunging into teaching it next week has fired up my enthusiasm for this medium all over again, and I'm burning to get back on the litho press. I'm going to be that totally absorbed and crazy studio teacher who is always SO EXCITED about what she's teaching. I hope my students are going to be able to handle that.
I put up a new set in flickr of my Rock City photos from last week. Here's a taste:
Bowling gnomes.
Posted by jodi at August 9, 2007 09:07 PM | categories: in the studio
Comments
Peters print is gorgeous! I'm hoping to head down your way at the end of this month once you get settled into your school routine and I get my Munchkin settled into his.
Posted by: mouse at August 9, 2007 10:50 PM
Hey, Peter...cool work!
jodi...that photo set is AMAZING. Kinda giving me flashbacks though (teehee).
Posted by: bonnie at August 10, 2007 12:10 AM
Nice job Peter!
I love lithography so much, which came as a real surprise to me when we started to learn it last year. It's my favourite printmaking process by far.
Posted by: crumpet at August 10, 2007 09:35 AM