A lot of rain in the last couple of days and the temperature has dropped so I've been working indoors, as close as possible to a gas heater. Have been doing some monoprinting from stencils such as the first image below, not quite finished.
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Cafe Azul monoprint. NdA Feb.2010
Portuguese Woman monotype NdA Feb. 2010
Inside-Outside NdA acrylic on paper Feb. 2010
8 comments:
I LOVE that Inside-Outside! Can't stop looking at it.
I love all three of these. Outstanding. I think Portugal has been good for you.
Lolabola, Dave, DefSufi, thank you. It's good to know you're out there looking in. I agree this experience has been/is good for me. I'll be taking the lessons of it home with me.
Wow, I love these, Natalie!
I heard an interview recently with a woman who had a stroke affecting her left brain, so she was almost totally right-brained - it left her blissful! She regained much of her left brain use, but has chosen to leave much of her former left-brain obsessions and nit-pickiness behind. Says you can choose which brain circuitry to use. I've been thinking about how left-brained my work is and the overworked ruts there. Anyway, until I can get a vacation, my right brain is grooving blissfully on your beautiful work here!
Wonderful prints. Do you have access to a press, or are these hand printed?
Leslee,that's interesting. It seems that women generally are more left/right balanced than the male of the species (so I've read) - ie the division isn't quite so pronounced. So maybe we don't have to make too much effort to accentuate the right side/
Anne,I have no access to a press over here. The top print is hand printed, using a wooden spoon to rub the back of cut-out stencils. The one underneath is a monotype: ink rolled over a sheet of glass,
a drawing made in the ink using a turps-wet rag, paper laid over it, the back rubbed with a dry rag, presto: a print!
wow! not just a lot of work, but a lot of wonderful work. love them ... and the fact that they are all so different from each other. next time take a videographer along for YouTube :) would love to see the wooden spoon thing :)
blessings,
rennie
Rennie,I've got my camcorder and am shooting videos but won't post them for the moment. When I get time to edit them, some will be posted.
This Saturday we'll be spoon-printing like mad!
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