Experimenting With Graphite Wash. Water Soluble Graphite Is Weird.

Experimenting with graphite wash. Water soluble graphite is weird.

I'm thinking about making a huge post on what artistic concept is and how to develop it once I am done grading finals. I'm getting a bit (read: massively) tired of it being treated like a nebulous and mysteriously mystic thing, by students especially.

Bought a new sketchbook, one with watercolor paper. First time I've had one of those.

Prints currently in progress. These are the color renderings for some hand-drawn limited edition screenprints/serigraphs I'm doing at the moment. Rather than using photographic emulsion, my studio partner and I have been experimenting with a tusche-and-glue method. I teach drawing for a living and her background is in lithography, so the direct mark making is a real appeal. These prints are going to be reduction prints, so the whole color process is done entirely on a single screen. The top one is Poludnica, the Noon-Day Witch. I did a sketch a couple years ago and thought it would make a nice print. The third one down is print versions of my nesting dolls. The bottom, obviously, is Weirdo.

An array of stuff on the work table.

Got some more wire, so more progress has been made on the Problem Sleuth/Midnight Crew figures. The armatures are made now, so now it's on to the next step. As a note, Snowman made me bleed terribly, the aftermath of which is self evident. I suppose that was to be expected.