I’m having the hardest time coming up with a title for this piece. I still don’t know if this should be considered complete as well. The urge to tinker and fix mistakes still tempt me. I’m going to reprint this project because the possibilities that collage brings gives me the capability to work multiple compositions. I’m hoping the next version I create might be used for the upcoming show. Still not sure what will be needed yet, but the excitement has not worn off.

Yay.

Projects are starting to snowball. Last year I was struggling to put together ideas, while this year there’s too many to juggle. I have two books waiting to be printed, a linoleum to carve and print, an eight-foot tall monster to silkscreen, as well as various sketches to develop and blocks to reprint. Guh, too much!

P.S. Don’t forget the poll from last post, I still need more input!

MAKE IT WORK! If I had my own Tim Gunn, he tell me that over and over until I became a production machine. This semester has been the semester of bad prints and mishaps, but I’m going to make it work! I will! I need to push myself to my breaking point and beyond.

This particular print was already a mess to work with, but I didn’t like how the proofs were looking. Neither did my mentor, but at least I got some suggestions on how to steer it in a better direction. There’s only so much you can do with a relief print, but I think collage helps.

Guh, all these photos are horrible quality. My fault.

I’ve been working on a book as well. Here’s a sneak peek:

It’ll be an accordion fold. I was finish it for class today. I’ll blog the photos of it later this week.

-Megan

Okay, so I bought one of those Chartpak blender markers last year when I was attempting transfers. Since it didn’t go so well with the first trial, I gave up on the technique and worked with wintergreen oil. I’m starting a linocut for a book and wanted to shortcut some of the drawing. I’ve done gel medium transfers as well as wintergreen oil and found both to be either finicky or disastrous when it came to the printing. I’ll argue that those failures could have been my own fault, but I decided to give the Chartpak blender another go. It worked pretty well. I used a spoon to help the transfer along, so that might have been the secret all along. The one part that annoyed me however was the marker’s juice was almost depleted by the end of what you see in the photo. I hardly used the maker, maybe three or four times. Kind of wasteful financially in my opinion. Oh, also the marker is very fume-y, even in a spacious room. Gag.

Anyway, I guess I would only recommend this for small projects, sketcbhooks, and stuff like this.

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My next print is making headway. I finished carving into it the other night. Next step is to make a proof print and then printing is a go!

-Megan

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