Model and Chair by Ruthie V. 10×8″ drypoint on grey BFK
What a great day! Nikki and I hung out in the studio and made drypoint prints. The image above was my favorite of the day. It was scratched into plexiglass using 220 grit sandpaper and a diamond tipped scribe, then printed on grey BFK. I was originally intending to paint the composition, but thought it’d be interesting to sketch it as a print first. Today was drypoint. I might try making it into a woodblock as well.
This could be a new studio practice for me: printmaking as a pre-step before painting. When I draw, print, or paint an image, I engage in various forms of problem solving. The wider variety of problem solving, the more forms I see my ideas take, the more I hone in on what I want to pull out of the image. I can already tell my painting will be easier to paint, and better. Also, great ideas and good compositions are not easy to come by, and this way I get to make more with my favorite images. I’m excited about this. I’ve already started several more drypoints of new painting references. We’ll see what happens.
“Sky’s the Limit” is from a Facebook gallery of cloud paintings collected by Anne McGurk. Is there a painting you’d like to add to the collection? Let us know!
If You Could Only Save the Louvre’s Art or Its Visitors, Which Would You Save? This week’s question is a variation of one from The Book of Questions, stolen boldly and without remorse from Wait But Why. “Say on a given morning, there are 100 people in the Louvre in Paris. If a wicked sorcerer threatened …
[image_with_animation image_url=”11400″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Copper plate with grey ink (see print a few pics below) I met with Nikki today to get some schoolin’ on drypoint. Dypoint, the art of scratching a shiny surface with a pointy thing, seemed to me to be an easy form of printmaking because I can draw with …
Printmaking as a Complement to Painting
What a great day! Nikki and I hung out in the studio and made drypoint prints. The image above was my favorite of the day. It was scratched into plexiglass using 220 grit sandpaper and a diamond tipped scribe, then printed on grey BFK. I was originally intending to paint the composition, but thought it’d be interesting to sketch it as a print first. Today was drypoint. I might try making it into a woodblock as well.
This could be a new studio practice for me: printmaking as a pre-step before painting. When I draw, print, or paint an image, I engage in various forms of problem solving. The wider variety of problem solving, the more forms I see my ideas take, the more I hone in on what I want to pull out of the image. I can already tell my painting will be easier to paint, and better. Also, great ideas and good compositions are not easy to come by, and this way I get to make more with my favorite images. I’m excited about this. I’ve already started several more drypoints of new painting references. We’ll see what happens.
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Sky’s the Limit
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Which Would You Save?
If You Could Only Save the Louvre’s Art or Its Visitors, Which Would You Save? This week’s question is a variation of one from The Book of Questions, stolen boldly and without remorse from Wait But Why. “Say on a given morning, there are 100 people in the Louvre in Paris. If a wicked sorcerer threatened …
My first drypoint prints
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