I’m trying to submit to Altered Esthetics’ “Creative Blood” exhibition that involves family artists with either separate or collaborative work. I’ve submitted the mix media piece of my sister and I hand colored one of her silkscreens she gave me as a collaboration. This is mostly so that she would be saved a trip to the post office, as I’m sure she’ll thank me later. Anyway, I thought the pieces go great together thematically and when I did my drawing, it was bouncing off the ideas she had for her series. What sucked was that the first piece I colored was a dirty print, but for the life of me, I was determined to make it work. I cut around the frame like my sister did in her original piece, tried to adhere it to illustration board. I used old spray adhesive and it created this huge mess and the glue got in part of the clean illustration board, which then got dirty as I used my hands to rub it out.
Blarg.
Lesson learned: I’m not using spray adhesive again. I don’t trust myself with it anymore. From now on I’m sticking with PVA glue.
This whole mess of a situation worked out for my benefit however. I found another (cleaner) print in my portfolio and colored that with quick and easy with Prismacolor markers, graphite, white pencil, and charcoal. Voila! Better version in half the time and trouble.
Final, prettier version here:
Plagued
Despite the grief, it was actually nice that I went through hand coloring her print, because now they both fit together formally (her handcolored version was with more blues/purples). Now, if only I did these projects right the first time.
