Printmaking and Ceramics

Hey!

I'm giving you fair warning that this post is going to be a little wonky because the editor is freaking out!

I have been very busy lately and I haven't had time to post any thing that I've made! So now I'm going to try to catch up all in one crazy long post!

    

 

         

 

The pictures above are of some watercolor paintings that I have done recently with my new Dr. Ph Martin watercolors. 

This summer I took a maymester printmaking studio class that only lasted two weeks, but we worked in the studio from 8am to at least 5pm, sometimes 11pm. 

Because the printmaking class and the Raku (ceramics) classes were so small, they decided to combine them. So everyone in each class got to do a little bit of printmaking and a little bit of ceramics. 

It was basically a free-for-all. 

Here are so woodcuts and prints that I made. 

               

For these, I screenprinted the honeycomb background and then printed the bee on top.

 

We learned to rub red acrylic paint onto the wood after you draw on the image so that you can see your cuts more clearly. 

I also tried my hand at ceramics, and my pieces came out okay, I just learned that it takes so much practice to get down the technique. Especially when throwing. 

      

 

 

         

For this ship I drew two versions of it, one as the solid layer (the lighter blue), and one with the lines and details (the navy), onto this semi-see-through material called velvetone. Then I burned the two images into a screen and screenprinted them on top of each other. I off-registered them so that the two images weren't aligned directly on top of each other. 

      

               

The two bowls above were the only things that I successfully threw on the wheel during the class. 

It was a lot harder than I expected. 

These show all of my work that I completed throughout the class. 

I also burned a print of my woodcut bee into a screen and printed the image onto a clay slab. I made a few different shapes and I even screenprinted the honeycomb background on some of them, but this was the only piece that didn't break in the kiln.

 

After the last day of class I took my woodcuts to our local Art Walk where my professor and some of the printmaking students print shirts from wood blocks and we printed some of my designs. The flower on the shoulder of the red shirt is my professor's design and woodcut. 

Now, I'm working on a mermaid painting that I will hopefully post shortly after it's finished. 

xoxo