Today was one of those days that made me question why am I doing printmaking. While I was helping another student she splashed herself and me with the acid bath solution. Then the paper of my first print became wrinkled when it when through the press. Not sure why, even the acetate sheet template I had prepared was wrinkled. I was trying to mix the same dark olive green I had used two weeks ago; it looked right on the glass mixing pallet but it wasn't. I mixed it greener for each of the next 3 prints but it only got close to my goal on the fourth print. The 4th print didn't turn out because I used too much of the easy wipe modifier. One of the other printer (a beginning student) used a sheet of my Italian print paper unintentionally so I had to use her thinner BFK Rives. Then while cleaning one of the plates I dropped in and bent a corner.
Finally, I printed two other plates on my hmp. Neither one turned out well mainly because of the ink color. Now to figure out what to do to make the next session on Wednesday more productive. All over not a good day.
1 comments:
You show courage, tenacity, and you're rolling with the punches. What more could anyone ask of an artist? The final result also "rolls", as in rolling landscape, and it is beautiful despite your problems. I guess the neat thing about printmaking is, there's another chance for improvement, without starting from square one.
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