Here are the three gnomes from my Gnome Garden piece, sitting on the TV in a bath of sunlight.
Art & Books: May 2004 Archives
I had an epic day in the darkroom today: 30 prints from my last roll of film, and lots of them quite good. I have to sort through them for a few keepers for my final portfolio for photography; I think I'm almost done.
It was the last slip pouring day in ceramics, so I brought a couple of my molds home. I also made a bird feeder (well, most of one) and strung up all the kitties for the Girlhood piece. I need to find an 18x18 shadowbox with a frame. Somewhere.
As I drove up to the house, Rosie's new friend Ted and his mum were walking up to see if Rosie wanted to play, which she did. She and Ted had a good romp in the yard, but he still won't play in the pool with her, no matter how much she tries to get him to come in. I like Ted's mum; she's nice and roughly my age (everybody else in the neighborhood is older) and a little weird. She was oo-ing and ah-ing over the house project, but she hasn't ever opened a wall and found 100-year-old dried feces plastered to rotting cardboard. I'm guessing she has never even thought about what it would be like if that were to happen, so far out of the realm of imaginable is such a thing.
Anyway, a nice quiet evening at home, with the dog socked out after her playtime, and a chance to read uninterrupted and without guilt, even if I should really be working on infinite series a bit more.
... it means your block came out right.
I traced and carved my linoleum block for my printing project today. Five lemons -- one sliced -- and the words "Fresh Lemon Sherbet" on the horizontal. It was physical work but not terribly challenging, and it came out perfectly. I was very happy with the way the lemons came out, with the shading just right and my little detail lines showing nicely; on the letterpress the fine lines come out clean, whereas when I hand print them, they fill with ink. Very different carving techniques have to be used depending on the ink and printing method.
Yesterday I had a busy day, with four hours in the sculpture studio (I made a birdhouse and cast a gnome) and then a couple hours in the darkroom. I only got a couple prints out in the darkroom but I did get a contact sheet from the film I developed Thursday, and it looked nice. Only six of 36 frames were not worth printing, which is the highest return I've ever had.
The last day for wet clay is Wednesday, so I will be overtiming at school for the next several days.
