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rub-on letters & acrylic on collaged text pages, book dimensions 18.7 x 14.5 cm

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one blue apple slice

Grace, look what i made with one of the blue papers you gave me. It's a slice of a blue apple.

Took all of Saturday evening to make even though the end result doesn't look like much. lots of layering of the torn paper. Want to make more but need to figure out a more efficient way to do it...i think i might be onto something...so thank you for giving me more paper to play with!

more dried things

Except for the dried orange peel and the papier mache bowls, these have all been collected this past spring and summer. Ironic, isn't it? since these dried fallen things are probably more often associated with autumn and winter. But there are things falling and dying all the time.

While waiting for the clayballs to dry last month, i had been shaving some tree branches picked up at the parks nearby. I am saving the wood shavings for making more papier mache things.

After the branches were shaved, they were cut into these little wooden pieces:



Look how they relate to my orange nipples painting [still work in progress]:



It was actually from the painting that i thought to cut them up so you could see the perfect dotted center.



I like salvaging these things that would have been just left to fade away. like the fact that even though they are essentially dead, they still exist and you can still see how beautiful they are.

bugs on my wind panel

these dried-up things

things i've been collecting...

black wings

oil on wood panel, work in progress [detail]

not much

I wish there was more to show for the current state of the June letters but as it is, there just isn't much yet.

It looks like i probably won't even incorporate the letters themselves. at least not on this panel. I am painting the words right onto the wooden panel instead of hammering the cut-out letters onto it as originally planned.

The letters* went through several stages, creating new canvases in the process of it:



The panel above is this new [unfinished] painting below--


[previous post of a detail image of this]



These became the pink series. I thought the letters could work being separated on a series of mini panels but doing so broke up the words into just meaningless letters.



Below, i was feeling so giddy, thinking these are the colors and this would be the final stage. All the letters fit on the panel perfectly, leaving out just the question mark...


But the words are just on the surface and they need to be etched deeper somehow.

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*These letters came from a line in one of John Keats' poems, To the Ladies Who Saw Me Crown'd:

Or June that breathes out life for butterflies?

colors of june & august

more on this later... (if i get anywhere with it)

opening

etching, drypoint & chine colle on hahnemuhle printmaking paper, image (plate) size is 60.5 x 25.4 cm printed on 81 x 60 cm paper size.


The maroon dark red is the chine colle tissue paper printed/pasted onto the heavier printmaking paper (it was laid on top of the copper plate that has the etched drawing [inked up in blue] and ran through the press to be printed on the heavier paper).

hair

etching, drypoint & mezzotint on arches printmaking paper (cream color), image size 36 x 41 cm on 56 x 66 cm paper size










back of print showing the impression of the little plates printed together.