I wrapped up another quarter of printmaking today, turning in my portfolio and having the now-traditional post-class hot wing feast at Fire on the Mountain.  It's been very productive couple of months, and I feel like I've really been in the groove lately as far as working consistently and getting decent results, but I'm definitely looking forward to a break from the commute to south Portland.  Plus, it's probably about time to catch up on reading and movies (need to refuel the ol' image bank).

On the bonus side, that means that I've got a shiny new batch of prints to show off, and I'll be trickling those out over the next week or two.  First up, for your consideration, please enjoy "The Peep Show," 9" x 12", intaglio, edition of 8. 





It was a brutal day of printing to get this done (I had to wipe and print the plate twice for each print, once in sanguine, and again in black), which was sort of the theme of this quarter.  You can achieve really cool effects with etchings, but you have to earn each and every one of them through sweat and time.  Even something as simple as adding a single color doubles or triples the amount of work that you have to do when it comes time to print, and makes mistakes much more likely.  So it was a minor miracle that I got 8 out of 9 prints to come out well.  One of the printmakers I've been studying lately is Mauricio Lasansky, but when I see that he has enormous prints in editions of 75, printed using 15 or 20 separate plates...  Well, I just have no idea how that's physically possible.  I mean, I know it's possible, but it has to take a month or so to get that done, each time around.  Anyhow...

More work to come soon!

c.