Abandonment

I have abandonment issues.  I love it so much it makes me go where I shouldn't.

Time to slap a bit of life

into this blog. 

Here is my degree show work, installed, ready for the viewing public.  I had a wonderful four years to get to this and came out a different person altogether.  I am looking forward to being an artist in the real world now, however delightful and difficult that may be.

3D prints

 I scanned in a box that was used for earplugs and inkjet printed it over a monoprint. This gave me the idea to make some large size 3D earplug boxes which I did.  Some were made from prints, and one was simply the packaging blown up, printed and reassembled.

 

 

The End of Days

I am here, in the lull before the degree show when everything is so quiet that I am wondering what I have forgotten to do.  Here are some images of the degree show set up and things before, when everything was just a blur of assessments and presentations and clearing spaces and painting.

 

Etching part 2

I had to reground my plates after all and still got foul bite but printed them anyway. 

Day 7

A little bit of etching today.  I prepared the plates and then wondered if you could print using soft ground and indeed you can, although I think I have pulled too much ground from the plates for them to etch without foul biting now so I may have to start all over again tomorrow.  Here are the soft ground prints.

Day 6 - 2 prints and more varnish

I made 2 large prints today, a thread print and associated ghost print and then I varnished 3 more prints.  The thread print was an experiment printing red on black.  It looks dark and menacing which is what I wanted and the emboss was so good it took a small piece of the paper with it to leave a bullet hole shape.

I am loving the way the varnish takes away the matt, 'dusty' look of the print and will have to get fresh supplies this week to do a few more.