Summer Litho 2

Hey! So here is another one of my summer litho prints. This particular piece is a four plate, photo plate project entitled “Dominance”. I had a few issues but other than that I think it went and looks pretty good. I wasn’t really sure if I was going to like leaving the background blank on the bottom but I am glad I did, it works rather well. The top section is of course a taxidermy form, as they seem to have taken over my works or the summer. So far I really love photo plate but it is rather costly so I guess I will just have to see how much I will use it in the future.

I suppose one day I will have to talk about the meaning behind these taxidermy pieces, so I promise to try and write all that out sometime in the remainder of my summer…

Summer Litho

Sorry to have been away so long, I have been in a hurry to finish all of my summer litho projects, of which I will be posting one a week until I run out : ) But for a quick look at what is to come here is a photo of my workspace as I edition a few differnt print sets.

The first print I will be showing is….

This reductive litho!!!!

Now this was my first time working reductively on stone and surprisingly was rather enjoyable. I generally am not a reductive thinker (image wise) as I like to build upon an image until I am satisfied, or somewhere in the general area of satisfied. This was a good process to learn and experiment with. Basically I started out with a flat of my lightest color, and scrapped out any areas which I wanted to remain white, then printed my layer. You continue the process, building upon the same image, scraping out the areas that you want to remain the previous color until you have your completed image.

The print itself is of two taxidermy deer forms, but is mainly just an experimentation with process more than anything else. Now that the print is finished there are definitely a few things that I would change about it, since I now have a better understanding of the process, but overall I think it is a fair beginning to working reductively.