I've printed all four panels of "The Moth Burial" now--here's the sheet, in the morning sun. (It's finally hot & steamy here--I'm sitting outside this morning-- before it gets unbearable.)
I'm waiting till the ink's 100 percent dry before I fold it up. With the high humidity, best to wait several days.
I'm pleased! There are some issues... I have a couple copies to experiment with fixing by hand.
Some people's prints were perfect. One person in class said, "You were ambitious".
A four-board story was more ambitious than I'd realized.
I was careless about registering the paper so all the prints lined up right, and there were things I didn't think to take care for--like, inking each board the same, so each print is consistent.
But that's okay--Penny Cooper was thrilled.
I was a little surprised--I'd thought she'd be critical, but she didn't think in those terms at all. Rather, "That was good, what we did for the moth."
Technical problems don't bother me all that much either--I'd rather jump right in.
"I like to start on page 18", Auntie Vi used to say.
"we like this moth movie" , from Maple, looking at the panels of the burial. Thumbs up , all around if only thumbs could move in the up position. Splendid, If there were stars to be given - there would be so many for this printing of the "event".
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Are there any books written that do not state the obvious re: poor leaders and faulty government acts of cruelty? Are there any "solutions", pragmatic guidance , written (other than Hannah A?) So easy to capitalize out faults , misjudgement , mistakes, the worst of human nature - the aftermath of all of that - human history is consistent, I guess, the horror of it seems to be compelling to our dog eat dog nature. Like christians focusing on the bloody guy on a stick and the suffering of saints, the holes in them , the blood and guts agony of their torture instead of trying to avoid a repeat,. Girlettes will have none of that as you know. Girlettes, be our guides The only world where democracy is employed.
We really love your prints- there is a positive instructive matter of fact joy in them. Perfection of ink and lining up the paper is NOT allowed, whatever perfection is- , it ought to be pushed aside. "Perfection is just too boringly predictable-" so sayeth the orphans .
0h oh oh – – maples’ comment is the best ever! “We like that moth movie”—Yes! The orphans have the eyes to see.
Delete❤️❤️❤️Thank you, Linda Sue.
I actually didn’t think that the perfect prints were all that interesting myself – – especially in this day of computer or AI images – – I like to see proof of the hand at work. 😆
I think you are replying to a paragraph that I took out of this post – – where I was writing about the book “Odysseus in America” – – the author is “a staff psychiatrist at the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Boston”, so he’s not wallowing in the horror for fun but to find help for people who went through it, and I find that helpful to read about – – to try to incorporate – – both for my own hurts and for dealing with the people I meet who have been hurt.
Yes! Cracking good result. Being ambitious means that you have learnt far more..now this is the springboard for the next one...or would it be the next four.
ReplyDeleteI know three would be a triptych....I wonder what the name for four would be.
FRESCA here:
DeleteThanks, GZ!
I agree I learned more by taking on “too much”.
And I am doing another 4-piece, ha, yes. 😆
I didn’t know the name either:
“ a diptych is a 2-part work; a triptych is a 3-part; a tetraptych or quadriptych has 4 parts.
And a polyptych describes any work of art formed of more than one constitutive part.”
what an accomplishment for a first class! sometimes i think we learn so much more when we stretch ourselves than going for the low hanging fruit. when i am first learning something trying to remember all of the little steps is the hard part. i am betting some of the others didn't say it but wished they had tried a longer piece.
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Thanks Kirsten—I just heard the term “min/max” = when you put the minimum in for the maximum return – – I think things like printmaking are the opposite – – putting in a maximum effort for um, … not a minimal return, but some thing you could produce a lot faster and easier ?
DeleteBut as you say that’s low-hanging fruit – – the fun and reward are partly in the effort itself.
Starting on page 18 is a great motto.
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I laughed when she said it.
DeleteOnly the artist sees the "mistakes". A fine story!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Abby! I think it’s kind of like cooking, right? The cook always tastes the mistakes, but the guests think it’s all fabulous – –(also the pleasure of “I didn’t have to make it!!”)
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