First, the big reveal on a series of new collages headed to the Zea Mays flat file:
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| 16 x 20" collage: relief prints, woodcut, polyester lithography and ink, colored pencil, acrylic on marbled paper |
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| 18 x 24" collage: relief prints, woodcut, polyester lithography and ink, colored pencil, acrylic on marbled paper |
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| 16 x 20" collage: relief prints, woodcut, polyester lithography and ink, colored pencil, acrylic on marbled paper |
Details:
Getting to this point involved many steps. First I marbled the paper. Then I made polyester lithography plates for the background based on my relief prints. This time, I did something a little different in that I used the silhouette of my relief image and layered it digitally as a clipping mask over a pattern. I also used vignette edges, fading to white around the edges of each plate so that I could place them in different spots on the paper without leaving a line at the edge of the plate. Then I printed a variety of backgrounds. Unlike the last round, because these involved multiple plates, each one is different, and I also used the ghosts of the plates to create a difference in value from black to gray. Very excited with the way these turned out!
Then, I printed the new bunnies and re-printed an older block of a bunny and the woodcut block of the swallows. I also made a polyester plate of some of my house and vehicle blocks.
Then I collaged. Max helped.
In creature news, all the creatures seem to enjoy the new, larger bed (as we can see, there is even a tiny bit of room for the human!)
Honey and I also went on an outdoor adventure with our lovely human.
The Christmas decorating continues...
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| Mo as King of the Tree |
