Monday, May 10, 2010

liquid bodies, floating worlds

Hello :) This is the inside/outside print from the lithographic stone I showed in the last post, I was really happy with how the drawing translated to print in this one. I'm now working on a second stone so that I can try adding a subtle second colour (probably a red underneath the black) in another version of this print.

This is my first mezzotint, which was challenging in that I had to physically roughen the copper plate using a tool called a rocker to create a surface that prints black before scraping and burnishing to smooth out the areas that I wanted to print light. I made the image up as I went along mainly to test out the process, but still focusing on mysterious organic forms. I'm planning to do some more of these as I do think that the process gives quite a unique quality to the image and I like the idea of things emerging from/dissolving into the darkness! Below are some graphite drawings in progress.