Saturday, November 29, 2008

And In the Beginning...

For those who have been to college while holding down a job, you know it sucks. Running on autopilot the last several weeks just trying to get stuff done before more is assigned, I somehow missed the little detail that the monotype project I was working on for my Printmaking class was supposed to be based on a piece of literature. Funny. Realizing this was realizing I had wasted two Saturday nights, and several weekday afternoons working out ideas for the project. Starting over, I realized it was maybe more fortunate that I had to go back to the drawing  board, because what I was working on was seriously leading me nowhere useful. Basing the monotype series on "The Story of Susanna" in the Apocrypha (not by my choice) ended up being a little fun. I used a bunch of stencils for the series, which took me fooorrrreeeevvverrr to cut. But, that's a different story for a different day.

Here are a couple of the monotypes. They probably  measure around 20" x 30" or so-On Rives Heavyweight Paper.