‘Passing Through’ Collograph print on paper. (Image my own)
I needed to find a school/studio safe process to seal the collograph plate. This was a test of the new sealing process.
I kinda like it.
He’s got something going for him and he’s going places, even if he is dead.
Another fast piece, made in under an hour. Although not one sitting - more like 10mins, 30 mins, 20mins. I wasn’t timing but you get the idea.
Again there is a pleasure for. me with drawing and by extension printmaking, specifically collograph. I get to draw three times. Once when I first draw the image, second when I cut the plate and third when I wipe the plate.
There is something deeply satisfying about drawing for me, it’s visceral, and somehow beyond my words. I long to make a drawing so honest and from so deep within that it it falls off the page.
Again I’m connecting to my materials trying to find a tone of voice to them, also not thinking too much.
Rhythmns.
I also wondered about encaustic wax, I stumbled across it today reading a web page about it. There’s a quality to it that I suspect could be really delicious. I’ve set drawings in wax before by just dipping but this is a more intentional process, proving layers and tones. In addition it gives me another material - another dialect. I’m concerencd that I’m adding yet another process to learn and adding more time whichh I really don’t have right now…
Tick tock….