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Study ae-3
Published: 2005-04-13 05:57:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 11110; Favourites: 287; Downloads: 49
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Page ae-3 of a book of etchings I'm making, with the comparison of earthly life to that from the alternate earth, AE-467d2, in order to illustrate an argument taking place within its pages between a skeptic of life on other worlds and a supporter of the theory that says we can't be alone in the universe(s). Hope the rest of the book is this cool *happywithprint*. The animal plate is distressed etching and a ton of drypoint, while the text plate is distressed and intentional-incorrectly applied photoetching....oh yeah, so anyway, this is two 5x7 zinc plates with one being sepia, and the other black ink. This is my proof, I wonder if it'll look nicer on Arches or Reeves bfk.
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i wish our art rom had all that awesome stuff. i'll have to wait for college, i guess.
but i do think that we can manage the monoprint! though usually im not so keen towards the sketchy surrealist style...must have too much of a perfectionist in me. but you never know. I'll probably experiment after i finish my next painting, so monoprints will definetly go on my list!
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Yay for sketchiness! At least in my book. I'm fond of it. ; ) But my pencils are usually not so sketchy as all that. Experimenting, even with things you normally wouldn't like, though... this is a good thing that'll broaden your experience.
College is most fun. ; ) Where ya going?
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Chicago, hopefully. I'd love to be an illustrator, but im afraid its in the same way a six year old would love to be a princess...
which is why ill probably study art history, hehe. its all still art to me, and maybe i can get into restoring!
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You know, I agree with you entirely about creating art instead of simply learning about it. But the way I figure it, if Art History appeases the-parentals-with-the-checkbook, then I'll take Art History. I don't hate it, and I'm actually rather enamoured with the various artistic eras. It's not creation, but hey, nobody told me I couldn't double major! And Art History might be one of those marketable skills they're always blathering on about, right? Right? Yeah, so I may be deluding myself a little...double majoring at a school like Chicago may be a little suicidal.
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Aw, but there's nothing wrong with that dream to be a princess! When kids give up their dreams, they lose a sense of wonder that I think most people should do better to keep. *nod* ; ) If you try hard enough, you could get your princessdom. Art History's fun, I suppose... but nothing beats creating work. ; p I'm biased. Though I know someone in the sculpture dep't. at Chicago, so I know it's a good school.
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Great job with all the samll line details.
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Wow, this is really interesting. I enjoy it, a lot.
Mind explaining further the process of printing the text on?
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Ever worked with ImageOn plates? I wrote it on acetate/transparency, flipped it over and exposed it onto the plate. ImageOn is a nifty film that you adhere to a zinc or copper plate and shoot on like photo printing paper. Developed it intentionally longer than it required, so the film started coming off the plate in areas, and then etched the zinc. Printed that plate over top of the drypoint one with the drawings.
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Whoa, really long process, haha.
No, I've never worked with developing film, for better or worse.
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Well, it's not an actual photography process, but it is a photo process, being light-based. It's easier than it sounds. Teh hard part is getting the thin film stuff to adhere to your plates.
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Very cool textures and lines. I like the bottom better than the top.
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Grazie. I'm happy with it.
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I really like the fishes. 
This is a piece I wish I could view in its original form. I'd love to be able to look closely at the textures. It's like something from some crazy cool sketchbook, which makes me want to have it in my hands. Some things are much better in reality than in a digital form.
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; ) I wish I could show it to ya, alas... I'm here. You're there. And all that. But yes, digital never reflects the reality well enough.
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damn bro. the concept alone is excellant!
it's almost like you're 'role-playing'. and please don't be offended at that!
i mean,...i think artists do alot of role-playing. putting themselves in the shoes of
their characters. that's where alot of the expressiveness comes from. at least that's what
i do when i'm creating some of my more fantasy-like stuff.
anyway,...aestitically it's excellant as well! you've nailed the look of antiquity!
and the little etchings are great!
fascinating project!
looking great!
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Haha, thanks, I think... roleplaying as whom/what, though?
I was essentially doing that for my thesis. I was the recon-artist for a team of interdimensional planetary explorers, and sending stuff back through the wormhole to terra prima. But that was a different (although intrinsically related) project. After all, that snail creature is one of the fauna from the other earth we were exploring.
; ) I'm quite happy with how this turned out, yes. Though it looks amazing in color.
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I like this a lot. I love etchings/engravings for the scratchy lines and blackest blacks that you can get. I like the sketches of the fish!
I'm a sucker for BFK Rives, but I think Arches would be nice for this print. Did you end up making a decision?
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Hehe. Everyone loves that fish. My other plate has dragonflies and my slugbird. I'll get a scan of it up here eventually. *nod* It's in a show right now, so gotta wait til it's taken down. Pretty soon. ; ) I adore etching. It's muchly my favorite medium right now, though for busines purposes I prefer watercolor or acrylic wash.
Um, well, this is on the 90 lb Arches, I think. I forget... The version in the show is on that greenish-brown Reeves stuff.
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Reminds me of Leonardo's sketchbooks. : )
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Dude. THAT is a nice compliment. ; ) I dig Leo's books a LOT.
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Who doesn't enjoy the frenetic ramblings of genius? : D
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Hmm. Jealous types? '; )
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Qua? You mean philistines, iconoclasts, florentine mourners?
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Well, who else? There's a funny song from "Godspell" about the Pharisees that fits this pretty well, where someone (maybe jesus?) is yelling at them. Don't ask my why I know a song from Godspell... O.o
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Heh, that was the first show I did costumes for, well, the first musical. My first show was The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe my junior year of high school. And it was god awful. But Godspell I did my senior year. Out theme was post-apocolyptic, torn up clothes and old fatigues...so much more fun than clowns.
: )
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Aww. What a neat opportunity to get the fantasy geek out into a play form, though, with Lewis' work. Never seen the original Godspell, but I have seen some clips... and yeah. Clowns are bothersome. Clowns for Christ should not exist. O.o
Wish I cuold see how the play went.
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Godspell was a good show. Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe was not though, it was a pretty bad script. We did a couple of cool things though. We made all of these animal masks which were pretty good for a high school junior's early work. : )
I remember Tumnus having a bad reaction to the make-up, his face turned beat red. So we just stuck horns on his head because he was red enough to look fantastical if not a little demonic. Hard to believe how long a time ago that was...
I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled...
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Hmm. One day... like when I get around to seeing "The Producers". To date my favorite shows were Les Mis and The Lion King. That costume design... man. I hear last year's Washington Shakespeare production of "Midsummer Night's Dream" was pretty amazing, set-wise, but I couldn't get tix in time. Ah well. If anyone ever wants me to do more theatre work, I'll do it, but I haven't since set-painting in highschool. That WAS a while ago, yeah... *le sigh*
Ha, well, I hope he survived the performances! I stuck horns on my head one halloween, in a business suit, with some liquor and my goatee... modern day Pan didn't seem to get understood. They all thought I was Lucifer. So sad.
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Of course they thought you were Lucifer. Dressed in a business suit, what corporate executive wouldn't remind you of the devil? : )
I remember at my old school, you could actually get a degree in scene painting. I knew a few of those students, they were a crazy lot. But boy could they re-create wood grain like nobody's business.
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Well, it's good to know that no matter what I am like on a personal level, if I dress in horns and pin stripes, I'm satan. ; ) Could be worse, I suppose. I dunno that I'd like to spend THAT much time doing scenery! *laughs* However, I did enjoy the time in HS. Now, off to the library for research on Rackham and his influence on modern illustrators!
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Oh well, I wish I had an EXCUSE to research Arthur Rackham! ~muttermutter~
; )
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Haha. Go get "Arthur Rackham" by ...um.... Hamilton.
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No, no, no... it's a biographical book thing by James Hamilton, entitled "Arthur Rackham: A Life with Illustration". *nodnod* And if MY head hasnae exploded yet, then I'm certain you'll endure as long. *smirks* I think you had a bit too much coffee. You rambled on... *counts* three topics in 3.5 lines (on my 1280x1024 res). ; p Aaron Burr also was a pretty prominent man, too, at the time. But yes, he did kill Hamilton. That's ok. Dueling isn't terrible, if both parties really wanna. Chomsky, eh? THAT is pretty neat. What was the other 70% about?
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I'm beginning to wonder how many of these conversations we can run - concurrent and consecutive - before my head explodes. I'm not complaining, I just forget where we are sometimes. Are we talking about Alexander Hamilton? I remember we was shot by Aaron Burr in a duel. Did I tell you I went to hear Noam Chomsky speak? I only understood about 30% of what he said. But he's a very wise man : }
Now, I think we're off topic. My bad.
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No, no, no... it's a biographical book thing by James Hamilton, entitled "Arthur Rackham: A Life with Illustration". *nodnod* And if MY head hasnae exploded yet, then I'm certain you'll endure as long. *smirks* I think you had a bit too much coffee. You rambled on... *counts* three topics in 3.5 lines (on my 1280x1024 res). ; p Aaron Burr also was a pretty prominent man, too, at the time. But yes, he did kill Hamilton. That's ok. Dueling isn't terrible, if both parties really wanna. Chomsky, eh? THAT is pretty neat. What was the other 70% about?
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That was an odd day, if anything I actually should have had some coffee. Besides I have resigned from my former occupation as a barista. I know sell media at Best Buy. : )
Chomsky was actually very interesting, but he had that dry rambling speaking voice that you had to work at to listen too. But of course it is worth the effort. If I could condense what he said in brutish terms, the jist of it - that really the current president is not the radical some would think, but his actions are right in keeping with American Imperialism, a tradition that our leadership class has continued since, well, practically the birth of the nation. Which is quite true when you look at our history in Hawaii, the Phillipines, etc.
I thought it was humorous when he said, 'don't be fooled by the president's affected apeech and mannerisms. Graduates from Yale don't behave that way. ' Which goes to show, the surface of politics is a three ring circus contrived to distract us from, well, whatever we apparently have to be distarcted from.
In a nutshell, a wordy nutshell. : )
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I suppose electronic gear is a more lucrative enterprise than coffee, unless you're selling thousand dollar cups. But having done neither one, i canna say. I'm soon to be selling amerian handcrafts and arts. It's a part time gig, but it'll get me floating while I find a jobjob. Ugh. Still, prospects are around. Gotta snag one or two... O.o
Mmmcoffee. It's not my preferred drink (being of a Chai mindset myself) but it's ok. I'm glad to hear you actually understood the ramblings of mr. chomsky. I just quoted that bit about Yale to miss lisa, but I couldn't recall where I'd read it. Don't you feel special being a noteworthy provider of info? ; ) Being president really shouldn't be an act of imperialistic dominance. Silliness. Why don't you become president? I'd be happier. And we wouldn't need nutshells.
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ME?! President? First of all, you're right we wouldn't need nutshells, that's because I am a WELL CRACKED NUT! While, I do have this glorious image of corrupt CEOs frog marching to a maximum security prison in leg chains and orange jumpsuits, and a mandatory order that congress wear pink on Mondays, nooo, I am ill suited for the task. Better we should clone FDR. That would make me much happier. Hey, it is still one man -one vote, after all, all we have to do is vote for him. : )
On the other note. I like green tea with honey. I'm not so avid on coffee either. Unless blended with iceand milk, with LOTS of chocolate and whipped cream. None of that straight black quad-shot crap.
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Too much caffeine makes me nauseous and dizzy, so yeah... but the iced coffee... or the dreaded frappuccinos... oh so delectable. Green tea, I can totally get down with. Huzzah. *hip-thrust* *cough*
Mmm... why not just let the guy who writes Calvin & Hobbes lead the country? I think we could all use some dinosaurs and suicidal snowmen.
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Mmmm, crazy bikes. Sounds fun!
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Bill Watterson? Yeah, I'd vote for him. But I think we'd have more to fear from homicidal bicycles...
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ooo....that's pretty cool...i like the fishes.
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Yay fishes, indeed. Though they were quite random. Just looking at a blank plate and decided to scribe fishes into it. It began with them, and ended with the text and texture.
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