A busy week in Artlandia! A new squirrel and 6 feet of art-tree - thumbs up!
To get to that point, first, there was carving and proofing the new squirrel block:
Like the rats, I find this little guy so funny for some undefinable reason. Also like the rats, the first block (from July 2014) showed a more static pose, and I feel like I'm progressing toward more complex and expressive postures - thumbs up. Once I was happy with the block, I went ahead and printed this and the older squirrel block on a gray paper and then added ink and acrylic to individualize them.
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| new print of squirrel block from July 2014 |
I also finished the tree trunk block. Then I prepared paper for it by marbling gray paper with black and then adding green paint for moss so that each print would be subtly different. I wasn't sure how best to make moss, so eventually, I went with the very straightfoward approach of dipping actual moss in paint and pressing it on the paper.
On the one hand, I'm stoked how well it turned out; on the other hand, the amount of time invested into each sheet of paper limited the quantity I was able to prepare and so I did not want to waste any of it.
Fortunately - no misprints (Whew!)
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| Combined with the base, that makes 6 feet of art tree so far :). |
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| One of the cool things about the print is I designed it so that it can be flipped over and aligned to itself to act as two 30" segments of trunk. |
