I've been utilizing stamping/printing for collage purposes.

Moths! Bees! Flowers! I've been experimenting with placement for later prints.

I’ve been currently printing/cutting a lot the past two weeks. I also have been working in my sketchbook. Next post might show that.

-Megan

The MFA kids at school all participated in a school-sponsored print exchange. The theme this year was, “What Nobody Knows.” I was going to use the bird lady intaglio that I posted some time ago, but I busted this one out before the due date. I printed between 44-50 prints and manage to get an edition of 25 out of that. I left school early to go home, so I missed out on the others printing their editions. However, I’ll get to enjoy the surprise of the exchange when it is wrapped up later this summer.

I’ll post in the next day or so (probably Wednesday) on the book project so far. I don’t know how much I’ll work on the book for the rest of graduate school, but this is the new work that is likely to evolve for the following year.

The top piece was the last piece finished, the ones below were the experiments/studies that built up to it:

I’m going to try and draw/print bigger over the summer and fall. The figures/portraits will probably go in the direction of the last etching that I posted, where the figure is more hidden under a surreal hat of sorts. Nothing is definite however, so I guess I’ll just keep track of the progression as it follows during the summer months.

-Megan

Anyway, here’s one of the prints I’ve been working one. It’s still not done, but you can see the progress here:

I’ve darken her surroundings, added more lines, and define more curls. It’s almost done. I’m going to attempt to make it have two colors with a color wipe technique that I never got around to trying. Fingers crossed.

-Megan

“Such fairy tales begin with an original lack of differentiation between two siblings: they live together and feel alike; in short, they are inseparable. But then, at a certain moment in growing up, one of them begins an animal existence, and the other does not.” –Bettelheim

Combination of silkscreen/drawing monoprints (or mixed media depending how you want to define it). Completed the final semester.

Graduate school 2nd year:

Artwork completed during my second year of graduate school.

Graduate school 1st year:

Artwork completed during my first year at graduate school. Media range from relief print, etching, silkscreen, and mixed media drawing/prints.

All work © Megan Frauenhoffer