Monday, May 24, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
MAILART GOING OUT TO THE FOLLOWING:
Samuel Montalvetti/ARGENTINA, Serse Luigetti/ITALY, Kiki Desvaux/FRANCE, Dewi/CANADA, Lothar Trott/SWITZERLAND, Snappy/CANADA, Sherri Ayers/CALIFORNIA, Jennifer Zoellner/FLORIDA, Eddie Nero/OREGON, Rachel Freeman/KANSAS, Louise Heroux/CANADA, Ryosuke Cohen/JAPAN, R.F. Cote/CANADA, Tracy Herrity/U.K., Jung Youn Kim/KOREA
Thursday, May 6, 2010
MISSING NOVEMBER BERUBE-BUG or "The Bug that almost wasn't"
There are some pieces of artwork that just beg to never be finished. For all intensive purposes, my November 2009 Berube-Bug should have been one of those pieces.
If I was a few years younger, had less patience, or wasn't such a stubborn fool, this piece of linoleum would have ended up tossed out of the window as late as last night when I committed to finally printing it after starting it almost 6 months ago.
Based on a trip to Virginia for Thanksgiving, the image was a culmination of watching hours of bloody video games with no less than 5 military in laws and friends as well as spotting Turkey Vultures for the first time in my life flying over the farm fields along the drive to and from Virginia.
I started the piece as soon as I got back from the trip, instantly having problems with coming up with the image I wanted. The initial drawing, (PIC #1 below), was what I initially came up with. That image sat on my desk until I finally gave up in December. I believe in January, I decided to give it a go again, this time by not finishing the initial drawing and starting out with a new, relatively different concept.
Somewhere between January and May, the piece was drawn, redrawn, redrawn again and then cut, little by little until I actually finished cutting it last night while I was printing it. One of the problems with putting one of these pieces on hold is that, there's a lack of continuance, the things I would normally discover and fix as I'm working on the piece become forgotten. So, as a result of that, I did my test print and realized that some of it wasn't working. At this point, I figured, I've waited this long, don't kill it now, try to fix it and call it done.
Having said that, I'm not completely pleased with it, but feel that a lot of my perceived questioning will be fixed with some color added to the image.
Live and learn. Glad that's done.
ORIGINAL CONCEPT (Drawing on linoleum)
2ND CONCEPT (Drawing on linoleum)
CUT LINOLEUM
FINAL PRINT
If I was a few years younger, had less patience, or wasn't such a stubborn fool, this piece of linoleum would have ended up tossed out of the window as late as last night when I committed to finally printing it after starting it almost 6 months ago.
Based on a trip to Virginia for Thanksgiving, the image was a culmination of watching hours of bloody video games with no less than 5 military in laws and friends as well as spotting Turkey Vultures for the first time in my life flying over the farm fields along the drive to and from Virginia.
I started the piece as soon as I got back from the trip, instantly having problems with coming up with the image I wanted. The initial drawing, (PIC #1 below), was what I initially came up with. That image sat on my desk until I finally gave up in December. I believe in January, I decided to give it a go again, this time by not finishing the initial drawing and starting out with a new, relatively different concept.
Somewhere between January and May, the piece was drawn, redrawn, redrawn again and then cut, little by little until I actually finished cutting it last night while I was printing it. One of the problems with putting one of these pieces on hold is that, there's a lack of continuance, the things I would normally discover and fix as I'm working on the piece become forgotten. So, as a result of that, I did my test print and realized that some of it wasn't working. At this point, I figured, I've waited this long, don't kill it now, try to fix it and call it done.
Having said that, I'm not completely pleased with it, but feel that a lot of my perceived questioning will be fixed with some color added to the image.
Live and learn. Glad that's done.
ORIGINAL CONCEPT (Drawing on linoleum)
2ND CONCEPT (Drawing on linoleum)
CUT LINOLEUM
FINAL PRINT
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
"A" Is For AARDVARK
Well, after a many month dry spell, I've finally printed up a new piece. Decided to start another alphabet series, this time printing up postcard sized images so that I can double the fun by sending them out to my mailart friends.
SKETCH ON LINOLEUM
CUT LINOLEUM
INKED LINOLEUM
FINAL PRINT
SKETCH ON LINOLEUM
CUT LINOLEUM
INKED LINOLEUM
FINAL PRINT
Monday, May 3, 2010
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