Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Woodcut #2-Head for an Exquisite Corpse




EDIT: I printed 4 prints of this woodcut today after class (and it only took me 2.5 hours to do + cleanup!) and they turned out really well. I did two black on white, one black on an orangey color (I think I'm going to scrap that one), and a black on green. I will post pictures as soon as I've taken some. I thought it would be safer to let them dry fully on the rack then to try and take pictures while they're still wet and my hands were inky. I'm very happy, but I need to get working on my suicide board hybrid image b/c it's supposed to be transferred and it's nowhere close!

2ND EDIT: Endi didn't like my background. He said it was beautifully cut and that the worms would have popped better if I'd left the background black. I liked how busy it was. I wouldn't listen to him except that before I cut the background he said it was one of his favorite designs and I'm open to crit. I made a mylar stencil though so I'm going to ink a field everywhere except where the worms are and make a black field over my orange-y one and one of the b&w ones (to see if he's right). I am also going to do a color field and then use the other half of the stencil to just ink the worms and have a solid color background with a much smaller black field. I don't really want to cut my block any more. Ana also suggested using thin Japanese paper to stencil and then it would take some of the ink and I could use it to collage later so I may try that too.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

oh:) it is love