Gouged Ink

I intend to print some today and I find this awaiting me.
Who do these punk kids think they are? Gouging up all the community ink.
I swear.

This is the second can of ink I have thrown away in as many weeks.
I haven't even checked all of them.

I swear.

I printed another layer of my reductive linocut today, but it was terrible.
I'll probably post it sometime later, but... It is not good.

SUPER COOL NEWS

Doing this print exchange that I wanted to do.

http://littlestprintexchange.blogspot.com/

omg need to go make an edition of 50. omg omg omg. :D

Hello Again.

I'm going to recommit myself to posting in this blog again. (as well as being an actual contributor to Mostly Roses)
I need to try to keep myself artistically accountable.

It has been a long time since I have posted here, so I will give you an abbrevaited rundown of the better of the pieces I have done in the time since I posted here regularly. (OMG LIKE MORE THAN A YEAR AGO.)


Tracks and Shadows.
Print/Drawing.
Included in The ASA's art show for 2009



Reaching out with horns.
Drypoint intaglio print.



Snowstorms in April and Dictionary Pages
Linocut, Woodcut, found paper, watercolor.
Used for the central michigan print exchange.


Hold On Now
Drypoint Intaglio.


Untitled.
Drypoint Intaglio with watercolor, graphite and embrodiery thread.
In the 2009 International Small Engraving Salon
(If you would like to see my other pieces that got in that show, click the link then find Riley, Lindsay)

So. There is that.

Hello again!
I'll be back soon,
Lindsay

Some Prints.

I'm posting some prints I made this semester.


<-- "We Were Trying Too Hard" Photo transfer and lino cut.













"Expect Changes In the Wallpaper"

Wood grain print under lino cut.















Adventures in Incelism


Wood grain Print under Lino cut.














Those Old Wise Silly Things

Lino cuts





"Taking Polaroids and Catching UFOS"

Wood grain and Lino cut.

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Sorry for such a long hiatus.
I've been busy?

I got that work study scholarship to Penland like I wanted.
I'm leaving this Friday afternoon.
I'm very excited.
It's about 'Exploring Bookness', we'll be making some book inspired objects. It'll be fun.

A Little Birdhouse

Happy Valentine's day.

...Remember to leave the night light on in the birdhouse in your soul...

Owl Dreams

Lookit!

These are my owls, an etching I did based on a drawing I posted up here a few months ago.

It's from an intaglio series about dreams I'm doing right now in Printmaking. woo.

Nashville and thoughts on cities

I went to Nashville, Tennessee on Saturday with my friend Ann and saw a lovely art show at Vanderbuilt by Xiao Xin Lu. It w

as a series of monoprints that had been drawn back on, sometimes  collaged, sown back in, anything that you could name. She had a very lovely control of mixed media. 

It was fantastic and has inspired me to try more things with my own printmaking, and maybe stray from the edition-able print. I know that i'm not a 'printmaker', I know I'm a drawer/printmaker who is influenced by form of printmaking. I am really excited about trying to explore this direction that my artistic vision wants to take. I've been thinking about it a long time, b

ut it wasn't until I saw Xiao Xin Lu's show that I realized how beautifully mixed media informed by the printmaking process could work. 

I just need to find a way to make it work well for me.

...and I'm pretty excited. 

Ann and I talked about how sometimes unexpected things are the best.  For example: not expecting a birthday present and getting one makes it so much better than if you were expecting something, no matter really what the gift was. 

I can't remember how it came up, but it made me think of

 New York. Which brings us to my second 'things I just like looking at' 

 

This photo was taken in Chinatown when I was in New York a few weeks ago. It's not just Chinatown that I visually enjoy, even tho I picked this photo for this topic

 (because of the colors and is one of my more favorite pictures I took on my New York trip). It's the hustle of cities that I like and am kind of uncomfortable with. You can be around so many people and be totally alone, and there is some appeal in that to me. At the sam

e time I really love random happenings you'll find more often in city places, which brings me back to my talk with Ann about unexpected things. While I was in New York one of my favorite experiences was getting off a subway with a friend and seeing some people breakdancing one direction, and a guy who played a mean guitar/foot drums (He was playing Tom Petty's 'You got Lucky', actually. I remember because I really like that song.) in another. All while lots of people are streaming around me going about their business. 

There was just something just visually great about it. (While leaving Grand Central Station we saw a squash tourney, too. This was not as visually awesome or moving etc., but was pretty out of the blue and cool too.) 

Maybe it was because I'm sheltered and just didn't expect something like that. 

I'm sure if I lived there, those kind of thing would quickly become old hat to me.

but just that the experience of all these people going about their own lives all around me and how I got to experience some things they enjoyed doing (playing music, dancing, playing squash) filled me with a wonder and a calm for the people who are around me. 

I think I like cities for the same reason I like living in the dorm. It's comforting to be around people, even if you don't know them, and even if you don't like them. I'm not a huge people person, and will openly admit to really not liking most people I've met in my life, but the fact they are around going on with their lives and having their own adventures and stories around me that I  will never know fills me with warm fuzzies in my stomach. It's just full of so much potential. 

Happy Father's Day

This is what is going to be part of a postcard printmaking project. I am doing seasons, and this is fall. It is also a father's day card.

Happy day for fathers, grandfathers, would-be-fathers, men who inspire people like fathers, uncles, nice boys. Anyone who is deserving. I know it's a hallmark made holiday, but it doesn't mean we don't love you.

Judy dreams of accordion androids.

Yeah, here are some more lino prints.
Full paper sized ones, not the tiny ones.
Anyway, this is judy:

and this is creepy scifi accordion dude:

They both say hello!

Sushi tests

I have finished the 'accordion accordion' book, and have moved on to my next project.
Tiny sushi stamps.
I think I might turn them into little magnets and maybe try to sell them?
anyway, here are the stamps:

Okay, below is more work on what I hope to be my etching design.
Hope you enjoy.


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Accordion Printmaking

As I might have mentioned before, I like printmaking. Here are some recent linocut prints of accordions. I plan to make an accordion bound book about accordions. A pun, yes, but I do like accordions.

mostly, a very good day.