It’s sweat, nothing else!

June 14th, 2010

n the absence of a digital camera I’m left with Photo Boothing my work. In the absence of a board of any kind I’m left with taping my work to the table. Didn’t work though, it came off, don’t know why. But I think the tape still kept the paper fairly flat for the most part. Been trying to befriend ink wash lately and allthough I have a loooooooong way to go it’s good fun and I’m getting somewhere I think.

But I feel like I need to get alot wetter (in the painting style — not while looking at it. Or why not, it doesn’t hurt!) and as usual the areas I haven’t quite figured out when I move to ink look… less figured out. It’s even harder to improvise things like that in ink wash than it is in ink, as you need to plan where the tones will be going. Or at least I have to. For the time being.

I halftoned (what’s the English verb?) the ink wash (double niceness!) last night and today I was screen printing it in B2 (50×70, hope to get some pics later). On Wednesday I’ll smack a layer of hand drawn raunchy text on top of it. Go tell your rich gay art patrons! It’s for our second year exhibition next week.

Edit: Just after posting this I visited Daily Drop Cap by Jessica Hische and felt a drop cap on today’s post would be fun. But I assumed she hasn’t made an I out of a fire hydrant yet so I scrambled one together in the last five minutes.

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