Thursday, January 10, 2008
Are We Done Yet? Just 4,000 More Hours To Go!
Nick and I worked most of the day today on our etchings. We made proofs of our soft ground etchings last night (10 minutes in the acid, 38 baume ferric), coated our plates with asphaltum and started drawing into them. We spent most of the day listening to This American Life, laughing and toiling away at our images.
We are both super excited about our projects but (once again) facing the reality that printmaking takes forever- damn! My proof and plate, me working and Nick's proof below:
Nick and I worked most of the day today on our etchings. We made proofs of our soft ground etchings last night (10 minutes in the acid, 38 baume ferric), coated our plates with asphaltum and started drawing into them. We spent most of the day listening to This American Life, laughing and toiling away at our images.
We are both super excited about our projects but (once again) facing the reality that printmaking takes forever- damn! My proof and plate, me working and Nick's proof below:
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