The Thing About Making Art Is:

The thing about making art is:

If you're good enough to be able to see what you want, you can make the image/object itself out of pretty much anything.

Right now I'm working on sewing some color onto a print I made. most of its fraternal twins are on paper, it's not exactly an edition. I made more than I needed off the block and then burned it into a screen using a print on oiled newsprint and then printed more, two of which are on canvas. at the time I figured I needed bases for mixed media projects outside of school. turns out I was right and I wish I'd made more when I could. but yeah, I made a lot of these because the image itself pleases me. I didn't edition them, so I could color them in by hand and not have to deal with Printmaker Judgement, which is what one gets from other printmakers when the edition is inconsistent (or nonexistent).

I'm doing a very normal version of the colors I usually put on this, only difference is that it's fiber art and it's taking forever to finish because it's painstaking and I keep stabbing myself in the left hand.

last bit of that is normal for my process I guess. almost as much as inspiration striking me exclusively at 2am.

but yeah, mom wanted to go to the JoAnne's in Federal Way tonight. they were out of the glow-in-the-dark embroidery floss so I just picked up some more colors that aren't the variegated stuff I've been working with, and some pieces of felt to make things with.

brought the in-progress canvas scrap in to check it against the colors they had in the store, got complimented by the cashier on it being beautiful. so that kinda made my night.

anyways, I guess this is another picture of my tool-box. I will post the progress shots in victory when I finish the beast.

Intaglio Print, black ink on white paper.

another one I will probably slap on a scanner later on, as unlike a lot of my stuff it's small enough to be scanned.

you know what, no explanations on this one, and no title. I've been talking enough on my other stuff. just look at it for a bit and figure out what you think is going on. that's just as valid as anything I have to say about it.

my little kitchen studio set up. I roll out slabs on that pane of glass, and I use acrylic ink for the easy clean up and relative non-toxicity (hard to be unsafe with a boring color like a carbon black I have to say) anyways, I have a small speedball roller and am using dickblick's black acrylic relief printmaking ink. works pretty good.

second picture is a table covered in some of the prints I made today. So Many Prints! I should list them on my etsy after the show goes down considering I think I may have a few left over. my main intention with these smaller prints is to make a thing at a lower price point so I can entice people to buy them and support me, even if they can't afford the larger prints, some of which I am going to price higher than others. (the complicated ones) I am not doing a closed edition on these (so I can always make more) and I might hand-color some of them.

acrylic ink is water soluble though, so we'll see how well that does.

straight out of the little red sketchbook. I don't like to put my hand directly on my cheek because I get zits, so I'll use my hood or a scarf as a barrier.

Tonight I tried to clean my screen in the bathtub with hot water, baking soda,  and the wrong kind of screen cleaner. the streaky green stuff is diazo photo emulsion still on it from the last time I tried to clean it about two years ago. (fruitless note to past self: do not rely on lab partners to not use all the screen-cleaner, buy your own bottle and hoard it)

mixed results (obviously) but not bad for old fashioned bathroom seriography.

I do not want to buy a whole thing of special screen cleaner. I want to do some reductive work with the blue stuff and the brown stuff.

sometimes my wants are not at issue.

Jack-elope

linoleum block relief print, black ink on white. edition of 12.

did you know that male and female rabbits are called Bucks and Does?

another fun fact: any piece of dream-like visual symbolism you detect in my art that you cannot figure out is most definitely a visual pun, probably a horrible one. this is because my actual dreams also are full of horrible puns. I would say that my interior landscape is not quite as bad as Xanth, but it's pretty close.

less panty jokes anyways. not that that's a plus necessarily.