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7 page exercise psychology paper due tomorrow

propagate meme on photo lab chalkboard like a boss

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and now all of a sudden I have way too much time on my hands, never mind college

series 2, get here already

referenced from here and here

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I have my tablet again :B I need to do something besides portraits

A while back, I set up another tumblr that I’m currently using as a kind of portfolio, but I’m not entirely sure if I’m going to post my “less polished” work there yet

In the meantime, there’s some exclusive work I haven’t posted here, so, uh, you guys should take a look °U°

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Working on transferring my next design onto a plate with hardground. I could do a xerox transfer (rubbing toner onto the plate w/ solvent), but I have a lowly inkjet printer so I use chalk and some tedious tracing instead. After everything’s transferred, I’ll wipe off the excess chalk with a damp cloth and trace over the lines again (you see why this is tedious now) with the scribe/etching needle I’m currently wielding like an idiot boss.

ahaha gdi the companion cube is distorted already

I think this is the first time in a long time I haven’t been in the print lab until… ass o’clock. Generally I’ve been on campus until midnight (past 2 if I’m printing with friends), so this is quite the achievement, haha!

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Guidelines for my next print! With aquatint, you start out with a surface completely devoid of tone. Any areas you want to stay white get covered with stop-out (this weird, gummy substance that looks and smells like cough syrup), and then the plate goes into the acid bath for a short period of time, which varies depending on the strength of your acid.

As you can see, the tones get darker the longer they’ve been exposed to the acid. Lather, rinse and repeat until you’ve got all your values in!

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“Decay of the Senses”, 2011
3-color intaglio on Rives BFK; 5.5”x5.5”
Edition of 10

Obviously it’s very different from what I had planned out originally, but the serendipity is one of my favorite things about printmaking. This set of plates has a very pulp comic/illustration feel going for it and I’m quite pleased with my happy accident (although I probably would have gotten something closer to what I intended if I hadn’t rushed my aquatint :))

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“Take This”, 2011
Intaglio tetratych on Rives BFK; 3”x3”/plate, 6.25”x6.25” overall
Edition of 6

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“Losing Time”, 2011
Intaglio on Rives BFK; 5”x7”
Edition of 5

the 3-color print saga, parte tres

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Well, this is done; from here it’s going to be turned into a three-color separation (cyan, magenta, and yellow), one color to a plate. Then, each color is printed one after the other, lightest to darkest on the same sheet of paper to (hopefully) produce a nice color print.

…yeah that doesn’t make sense to me either so here’s a fancy diagram for those of you who share my lack of reading comprehension