Mercury, settling

Little Wren

This week's IF prompt is hitched, and it reminded me of this.
It is an old painting that I'm thinking about re-drawing and making into a print for my MFA show.

It's really interesting to see how my work was changed, and also how it hasn't!

Shades

I've been so busy with work and school that I haven't had time to make anything other than the things I'm working on for my MFA thesis show. I miss posting to IF, so when I saw today's prompt, shades, I thought of this drawing.                                                                                                                                                   It is really old, from my time way back at Idaho State. It was for my very first formal drawing class.

Bluebeard left center, printed

This is the left half of the open center panel of the triptych. I'm going to print it on a textured yellowish paper called Bagasse, but I have a limited quantity, so I'm proofing the plates on the Zerkall, below. Next up is making plates for the other half of this image (and getting the values right!).

Bluebeard center inside panel

This is the center inside panel of the triptych.

New Growth, resurrected

                  

This poor drawing has been through so many evolutions; I've painted it three times, and this particular drawing has been modified on many occasions. This print is only the most recent version. But, thanks the excellent eyes of Kendall drawing prof Stephen Halko, who very gently pointed out that in a previous version, she had no neck, and to experimentation in Photoshop with levels and curves, which made me adjust the mid tones in the drawing, I think this is better. At least, now she has a neck, and is a proper print.
    Another revelation for me was the discovery of this paper, hiding in my drawer for two years. I think it is a kind of kitikata. The flecks in the paper are very beautiful. 

Hasn't snowed in a lifetime

That title has nothing to do with this post. I just like how it sounds. And it happens to be true.

I haven't posted in a lifetime, either, and I have new images to post, but at the moment, I am camera- less. I have the first four panels of the triptych printed, and I'm getting ready to try the pochoir technique of coloring them. I'm going to make their skin blue, which references Anne Sexton's The White Snake from her Transformations collection of poetry. I also have the second four, but only in drawing form, and they aren't quite finished yet. I'm also trying to get back into the gold leaf groove by making a small panel. I'm on my second try at gilding. Wish me luck.

I have a camera coming, so I hope I can post images soon.

Maybe we'll have snow for the New Year.

Cheers.