Showing posts with label alchemy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alchemy. Show all posts

3.13.2008

Of enameled thickets and chimaeric hybrids


A little bit of mine own art on mine own art blog, eh?
Five of these are of a series of enamels I completed for midterm. 'Completed' being used loosely, here, because I feel like at least three of them need a tad more work. Hint: the green ones are overfired (how I like it) and the red ones are way underfired (they also need sanding.) I believe they will enlarge if you click on them.
Also, a sketch of a night jar chimeric plant hybrid. Because right now I'm all about the combination of animals+minerals+plants+machines. Reading too much damn Michael Maier, that's what it is. Yes.
Maybe just reading too much in general.
To come: some several-year-old ballpoint pen watercolours that I never scanned for some reason, and a four-plate drypoint print on the aforementioned chimeric obsession.


3.01.2008

Alchemy


If I don't post this now, I will forget. A two-and-a-half month dry spell, then four in one day. I'm afraid this is what I do.
This is the third state of a print I have been working on for a while. I might have posted the first state here... I'm really not sure. In any case, it is a drypoint print, on arches cover cream, 9 x 12". The title is 'Avia Sophia'. It is, as I implied, still in progress, but I am fairly happy with where it is right now.
Refer to the title of this post for purposes of interpretation.