Monotypes

8.5x11", monotype.

18x24", monotype.

Experimental black and white monotypes from the beginning of the semester.

Etchings

This is a small etching created for practice from an old plate of Britt's which had a drypoint portrait on top of it. I (mostly) buffed it out with steel wool and used aquatint and open bite to create this image. 

This is my big project for right now... an 18x24" plate I am working using aquatint and open bite. The image on the left is the first proof, before open biting. The image on the right is the second proof, plate wiped in blue with a burnt sienna roll on top. The sharpie I was using as a resist around the white lines wore away in the acid so they have a scratchy dark outline I am in the process of scraping away now. The plate is being polished with steel wool down and will be re aquatinted, and editioned this weekend.

More Litho Prints

Here are a few images of the editions I've printed for lithography class in the last few weeks. They are both printed from pronto plates and are pretty small (about 5x7") and part of an edition of 10.

My roommate Nate and I collaborated to create this print, which is part of an edition of 10 and was printed by me. It's also printed from a pronto plate and is larger, about 11x17. I also pulled a few prints on plain canvas that are for sale in my Etsy shop and are the same size, as the design was created to be a backpatch.

Bundle Stitch Winecard book for Erin

This book was a gift for my roommate Erin's 21st birthday. It was bound using the bundle stitch method, which is a sewn binding instead of one that uses adhesive.

The pages of this book were made from a vintage atlas and a book about space that I cut up and repurposed to create pockets in the pages, created with sewing on the edges of the pages which can be seen in the photos. I saved the labels from Erin's wine bottles and glued them onto cards I made with impressionist cat paintings on the back (seen in the last photo). It's a very fat book because the pages are so thick. 

I'm planning on creating more bundle stitch books to eventually put in my Etsy shop!

Western Style Multi-Signature Books

Two Western-Style multiple signature books I bound. Both are covered in paper that has string and pulp inlaid to create raised designs in them. 

The top book I am using as a stream of consciousness journal. It measures 4 1/2x 4 1/2 inches.

The second journal measures 4 1/4 x 6 inches. 

Japanese Stab Books

I also learned how to create a book bound with the Japanese stab method.

The red book is made from leftover scraps printmaking paper. It has cream pages, red covers and is bound with brown thread. It measures 6 1/4" by 4 1/4" and is for sale in my Etsy shop!

The green book is also filled with printmaking paper, but the pages have been embossed with copper plates I created and each page has a small embossment in 2 of its corners of cells in the process of dividing. The pages are grey Magnani Pescia paper and the cover is forest green, bound with white thread. The inside liner paper for the covers is made from an old black and silver woodcut. It measures 7"x 4 1/4'.

Accordion-Style Book

This semester I'm taking a bookbinding class. The binding style we made was a book with accordion-fold pages. I chose to first monotype the pages, then attach and fold them and bind them into the book.

The book is 4x5 inches tall and has a blue/purple/brown cloth cover and black/teal monotypes inside.