Prints and Sketches

Here's 2 of my 20-minute drawings from my Anatomy and Figure Drawing class this week. The model didn't show up one day, so we drew from the skeleton and each other's hands.

Here is the final print of my plate after adding dremeling to the "smoke". I used hand-wiping to pull off some of the plate tone and make some of the white areas even brighter. You can compare it to one of the in-progress prints I posted a week ago. I'm finishing up editioning it now, and then it will be done.

Here's an "a la poupee" print of the plate. A la Poupee is a selective wiping technique where multiple ink colors are used on the same plate. For me and this plate, it was a very long process--it took about an hour and a half for me mix the ink and wipe the plate.

Since my friend asked me to teach a bookmaking demo at Northeastern in two weeks, I went back and looked at all the books I have made in the last year. I figured it would be a good opportunity to post a photo of a book I made for class last year. I used ink, watercolor, vellum and thread.

It's based off the city of Ersilia from Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities book.

Continued Prints

Only a few more days until this print is due! I added some spitbite today and hope to add some dremeling tomorrow or on Monday.

Anatomy Drawings

One of my major classes this semester is an Anatomy and Figure Drawing class. Here's a little bit of my recent work for that class.

Skull analysis and torso analysis, both drawn from a model skeleton.

Self-portrait and muscle analysis which was figured out from a textbook. The muscle analysis is drawn on vellum and overlays the face.

These are two 20-minute drawings we did in class to practice cross-contour shading.

Hopefully tomorrow night I'll have another state of my print done! I did a small amount of etching on it tonight and hope to add more aquatint tomorrow. If it doesn't get printed tomorrow, it will on Friday!

Prints Progress

I continued working on 2 of my prints today and yesterday: one intaglio print and one woodcut.

The intaglio print so far only contains etching. This is the second state of the print. At this point, I've added some spit bite on the white parts to give it a more of a gradient instead of just plain white and I did a little more etching to try and bring out some parts that looked a little flat, but it hasn't been printed yet!

Here's my first woodcut! It's a self portrait with a goose--and I just realized that I cut the goose's head off, which wasn't intentional! This was just a progress print anyway--I'm doing some more cutting on the goose's wings and using a stencil so the print comes out a little cleaner next time. I'll post a full photo once I've editioned it.

Tonight I'm working on drawings for my anatomy midterm--tomorrow I'll post some work that I've done throughout the semester in anatomy.

I've been thinking for a long time about how I want my websites to work, and I think I've finally figured it out.

My finished work will be available on my website (which is currently not finished) and will also be displayed on a tumblr that I am making for my art (which is currently non-existant). On this blogspot, I will show my sketches and process work (as well as the final pieces that those lead to).

I'll post some things I worked on today, and from the beginning of the semester, in a minute.