The Goods

Tonight, I needed to make a new screen for the previously mentioned Darwin print I've been working on. It seemed like a waste to coat a screen with emulsion and expose it with so much unused space so I whipped up this half tone of an old photograph and put it on half of the screen. Its 6" x 7" and will hopefully fit nicely inside these wax paper bags I bought for another project. I have 1000 bags so I need to come up with ways to use them up.

In Progress

Unfortunately, I did not really get anything finished today. I did however work a little bit on this project which will eventually be a four panel, non-representational (not abstract) collage. I figured I'd just post this in-progress shot for now. And anyway, I wanted to get out my trusty old TTV rig which shoots digital pictures through the viewfinder of a vintage Kodak Duaflex IV. This is the camera I used for the entire Land of Lincoln photo project earlier this year.

In related news, I had a few sheets of some vintage blue and red tissue paper that was totally awesome. When exposed to acrylic matt medium and adhered to a collage piece, it would release some of its pigment and create a depth of color that felt, to me, like an oil painting. When that paper ran out, I bought some modern tissue paper and it just does not have the same effect. So if anyone reads this and has a bunch of old tissue paper lying around, send that stash to me pronto.

Warhellride

I wasted most of my free time today working on a joint profile of Wesley Willis and Henry Darger.

Frend

As promised yesterday, here's the fourth in this series of Mickey Mouse prints composed of a silkscreen, an inkjet transfer and a cardboard drypoint. As of right now, I'm saying this is the last one, but I'm still working the kinks out of this drypoint process and these quick prints are a nice way to experiment, so maybe I'll do a few more sometime.