I wasn’t in love with today’s ^ print. Looks more like a mutant movie camera than a pencil sharpener. But if I think of it as one of a print series of tech from my childhood (which it is), it’s okay.
So… I just printed the three so far on nice paper with my new oil ink (so messy to use!!!)— whew! Yes, they’re good together.
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I talk about ‘doing it badly’ and ‘considering everything an experiment’, blah blah blah, but really I’m always disappointed when I don’t love the result. Human!
I like the dynamic way it's tilting left, like it might fall right out of the frame. Sawdust everywhere!
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Lol, yes, spilling and knocking the contents everywhere—Do you remember the smell of the carbon and wood shavings?
DeleteDon't have to remember, I have a 3/4 full pencil sharpener sitting on my desk.
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Cool!
DeleteLove the pencil sharpener. I have one just like it. Mom had it screwed down to the lower shelf of a old timey Boston fern table, so her crossword pencils were always sharp. Unlike my aunt, who worked the puzzle in pen, Mom's were in erasable pencil. You could add some No. 10 pencils to your communication series.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Joanne. That’s a cool physical memory. I was indeed thinking I would do pencils as one of the prints!
DeletePerhaps it needs an indication of the surface it is on...but it certainly fits in the series.
ReplyDeleteStaying clean is a problem!
Even just with water based ink. Are you using veg oil to clean your tools?...then dish soap.
Oh, good idea GZ! Adding a surface—and veg oil!!! I was just rinsing the water-based ink off with plain water – – didn’t want to dry out the brayers with too much soap – veg oil sounds the ticket.
DeleteIt’s floating in space. 😆 This morning I am really not happy with it – – I might re-do it or just move on
DeleteI like that pencil sharpener — it looks like it’s ready to serve.
ReplyDeleteBut the noisy distraction of someone sharpening a pencil in a classroom must explain why this kind of sharpener has disappeared from classrooms. I used to tell students that if they wanted to do a final exam in pencil, to please bring mechanical pencils. That sudden grinding sound when people are trying to think — aiieee!
My daughter treated herself to an AFMAT pencil sharpener -- push the pencil in and the sharpener does its thing and pushes the pencil back up.
Thanks, Anon. Electric pencil sharpeners were the norm in the high school I worked at last spring and they were noisy too. One was malfunctioning and squealed horribly but people used it anyway…
DeleteI knew exactly what this was the second I saw it! Fond memories of you-crank-em sharpeners at school. We had one in our house too. Now I want one for home!
ReplyDeleteI want one too— also a transistor radio and a typewriter!
Deletei love all of these as i can tell that they were created by a human using their hands rather than a machine created one. in a way it's like how we remember them in our minds rather than a perfect photogram of the items. something to be said for imperfection or doing it badly.
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