365 Day 196

pulling MORE prints...scraping paint...retouching paint...sleep deprived, I need a nap

Woah -- I need to get a nap...just an hour, hour and a half...that would be great...but I may be too excited to sleep...Cheap Trick concert tonight!

Okay. Last night when I got home I tried pulling two more prints each of the two linocuts I was printing yesterday. I just couldn't get them...especially the one carved in the textured stuff. I worked on those from 2:45 - 4:30 this morning. I dozed in my chair from 5:00 - about 6:45...this is part of the sleep deprivation...then I had to meet up with my sister.

Then I came home and worked on cleaning up the eyes on these two plaster cloth guys.






this guy is still just pretty much in base coat stage









he didn't even flinch












clean eyes...didn't nick the surrounding paint















I gave him some lip color and set him aside for later
















this cat-creature guy needed more than just scraping the paint...some of the plaster cloth needed to be removed, too













which left white areas that needed to be touched up













and then cleaned up again














done!
















tree guy linocut relief print...passable to show as the submission for that show...I can probably get a better one and I want to make the lines a little deeper on the leaves















I don't think this is going to print better than this...the material it is carved in is textured...some day I may re-carve it in regular harder lino material like the tree guy because I like the images...I am happy with this print














NOW I am going to try and slow down and get that nap!

365 Day 59

another all-nighter

Man. Last night turned into one of those ridiculous all-nighters again. Where you lose track of time and then you have to get up reeeeally early so you just say "heck with it -- I will just stay up" and then things start to get blurry and then it is daylight and you are meeting up with your sister for coffee but you take an hour's nap and feel a little better and then you go and run errands (I know at some point during the blur that was today, Juana and I were at LIFT, I changed the art in the Art-o-mat machine and we went to the hardware store) and then when you get home and your kitten sits on you and starts some "purr therapy" and you start to relax and then before you even know it you apparently finally fall asleep and then you wake up and it is dark outside and the only light on inside is the tv and you don't know if it is 6 in the morning or 6 in the evening and then it is suddenly 10:30 p.m. and you're like "oh NO...was the DVR set for my shows?!?" and then you go "crap -- did I post to the blog???"...you know...one of THOSE days.

ANYway...at some point (technically) very early today I drew over print outs of Piece #1 so I could get an idea of what the tuxedo cat-like creature is supposed to look like...it made sense at the time. Whether I can pull this off in time is a whole different question.