I promised some scans the other night but had to make a trip to Kentucky so I’m just now getting them reduced and uploaded. These are 9 of the postcards I had in my BFA show, they represent the kinds of prints I sent around the world during my Postcards after Ray Johnson piece in early 2012. These are all postcard size:
1) Photolithograph using tusche and silkscreen on artex
2) Silkscreen monotype
3) Photo etching on solarplate using water based tusche on artex
4) Stone lithograph of silkscreened gum arabic
5) Watercolor monoprint made by evaporating liquid on a copper plate
6) Silkscreened sugarlift etching and aquatint with watercolor monoprint
7) Photolithograph using tusche and silkscreen on artex (from the same print as #1)
8) Open bite using hard ground on copper with three layers of blind monotype (from rubbing the plate upside down over thin ink layers)
9) Stone lithograph using rubbing crayon and silkscreened Stones liquid tusche
From the series “awesome prints people have given me this semester that I want to show you guys” this is an aquatint by Rebecca Barton. I’d been admiring them on Tumblr for months for obvious reasons and I really wanted one, Rebecca was awesome enough to give me one when I met her at SGC during her open portfolio. Awesome awesome, just like all of her work. Very cool girl.
From the series “awesome prints people have given me this semester that I want to show you guys” this is an Artist’s Proof from my friend Jennifer Stewart’s experiments with awesome aquatint techniques. She’s doing her Master’s thesis on her experiments to figure out how Goya produced his aquatints. This one is rosin suspended in denatured alcohol, pooled, and evaporated. Gorgeous (just like all of Jennifer’s work)
Mail Art after Ray Johnson 2012
Examples of the original printed postcards I’ve been sending around the world for the past year, an idea I got after receiving one of Eric Saudi’s gorgeous drawings in the mail. Thanks to everyone who participated in my mail art project!
I tried out the white intaglio ink I bought at SGC and it worked kind of well, it wiped oddly. Oh well.
I got a wild hair today to do an etching. This is aquatint and spit bite with silkscreen resist. The spit bite went a little crazy and kind of screwed the whole thing up so I think I’ll call it a puke bite.
Look Clinton!!!
Me and Cupcake have your prints and we love them!!!
Sugarlift aquatint with watercolor monotype
Artist unknown, date contemporary
A beautiful zinc plate abandoned in the studio who knows when by who knows whom. I’m going to play with it and make it even more gorgeous.
Artist unknown, date contemporary
Etching I found in my cabinet. I ran some proofs today and it only made me want to work with copper more :(
Reprint with tarnish of an aquatint with spit bite. I miss copper.
Monoprint over sugarlift aquatint
Monoprint and carborundum aquatint over sugarlift aquatint
Monoprint over sugarlift aquatint.
Sugarlift aquatint with tempera (from a workshop UofL’s printmaking department hosted at the Speed Art Museum to teach kids how Howard Hodgkin makes his prints)
