So the printing class is done. Well, not technically. This week would be the last class, but I’m missing it because I’m leaving for Maine on Friday. Boo-hoo for me, right?
But the class was really good for someone like me, or more to the point someone in my profession. It was a way to be hands on while also forcing you to think harder than just making a few mouse clicks.
But anyway. So about 5 days before my last class, I started thinking about my last work. I even opened it up for comment / suggestion on Facebook and Twitter. My initial thought was Elvis. One suggested Mr. T. I had a friend suggest Lincoln in a bloody cage match of sorts. Another liked a Muppet idea I had (doing those two old guys on the balcony). But in the end it was Elvis after I got a second vote that put him over the edge.
To make things more interesting on my last project, I decided to not do a woodcut and instead do a linocut (linoleum mounted on a block) and used a type-high proof table instead of the spoon-to-paper method of wood cut that we had been doing for the rest of the class (it was an intro class – and my long term goal is letterpress).
So the image on the right is the carving, and the image on the left was the result. I printed 10, and only a few had the ink coverage I was going for.
But anyway, that’s the end of that class. I’m hoping to have more time for this in the near future, but we’ll see. I made a few good contacts in the class.
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