Friday, April 10, 2009

oriole





litho stone- in various stages


with a luscious drizzle of gum arabic...


After wiping off the actual drawing and inking the etched stone up, all that black just blossomed out.



the sepia tint of asphaultum

Thursday, April 2, 2009

more previous drypoints

nenek's portrait



this is the chinese peony pattern for nenek's portrait base...it's a matte woodcut relief print with a drypoint over it. the woodcut provides the texture (sort of worn-floral-sofa flaking); the drypoint puts the lines in and gives a glowing sheen (because of the oil-ink)




faceneck set of portrait drypoints








little fashion studies





labels in progress



several kinds of sticking papers did not work





but the problem of not being able to print the smallest type was solved by a wonderful 100p yellow mesh ..
this lets you have finer 'pixels' on your screen stencil.










plainwhite











looking







charbonelle made all the difference.

babes and the gerald's-baby