Towards a new Vorticism

I'm confused and excited by what this print might look like when I'm done.  Maybe making a 3 block linocut with no plan is a bit ambitious, I don't know.  But I do like this aesthetic.

More linocut

So the spider linocut is done, here is the first proof.  I want to print it on a full sheet but my press is too small, I'll have to go to the University.  There's a motorized Brand in the drawing studio, but there's not blankets and the whole outfit looks pretty dicey.

I'm starting to think about my print for the SGC print exchange, I'm thinking about continuing this dystopia theme but maybe with a Vorticist sort of aesthetic in three or four colours.  I printed up a few quick postcards to get my hands used to the chisels again:

this of course bears no resemblance to Vorticism, but I did cut it on two pieces that could be inked independently so that it wouldn't be a boring old one colour print.

Further proof

Progress is progress, I suppose.

How to hang a coffee maker

I found this diagram in my studio stuff, I'm not sure why I have it, but it's a technical drawing on how to hang the coffee maker at my parent's house.  They've had this coffee maker as long as I've been around.  It's so unnecessarily and beautifully complicated.  How hard could it possibly be to hang an under-the-cupboard coffee maker?  All those measurements...why?

A Mess

Like a damn bomb went off.  This is why I haven't posted in a few days.  My studio is a mess, so I cleaned it up today and started on a new print.


It's going to be a linocut that yields some monoprints.

Daisy

This is Daisy the donkey.  Painted from a quick cellphone camera shot.  I don't care if watercolour is for old women and school children, I like it and think I should do more of it.

Oldie But Goodie

This is some camera art that I painted a few years ago, acrylic on tracing paper.  It's pretty big (like 36" x 25") and I've used it for various projects, but I think I need to revisit it for something.  It's so fake, yet makes no apologies.