I’m participating in the 100 Day Project again this year. I intended to do a similar project to last year’s — a series of (unrelated) mixed-media collages, with a heavy dose of monoprinting to create collage fodder. That’s not quite how things have been turning out, though. Have you ever had a project appear...
Torn Paper Collage Redbud Leaves – The 100 Day Project, days 46-55
I’m still feeling very enthusiastic about tearing up bits of paper and gluing them to stuff. I dug a sketch of some redbud leaves out of my sketchbook and transferred it to a gel print I made recently. When I first finished collaging the leaves and drawing the veins in, it looked like this:...
Torn Paper Collage & Working with Leaf Prints – The 100 Day Project, days 31-45
I had a pretty big slump most of last week or so and wasn’t feeling the love for this project, hence the lack of update. I still haven’t missed a day, but there were some days where I did a pretty minuscule amount of work on it. I’ve been spinning while I watch an...
The 100 Day Project: Water-Soluble Media Strikes Back
I’m at a point in my 100 day project where I’m questioning my sanity in choosing to do this. This feeling is not being helped much by last night’s misadventures with water-soluble pencils. Once I post this, I’m going to make a bunch more prints. That generally gives me a bunch of new ideas...