Studio Journal two

I added in the aquatint into my etching. It looks a whole lot more complete now. It really needed the aquatint in order to be a successful print. I just have to edit a minor spot, but instead of having to coat the whole thing and put it in the acid bath I'm going to try to just work the area with spit bite. I'll find out in the morning if that is still the plan.
Oh! I also started on my thesis idea. Right now I'm thinking about doing an exquisite corpse based print. I compiled little packets and posted them in the school for people to grab. I want people to add on to the bodies. I will be doing one part of the exquisite corpse. I want to try to have this go on for the whole first semester so I end up with A LOT of exquisite corpses. I've created a little handout instructing people what to do. They will then slip the packets under my studio door. Then, if I stick with this plan, I'll pick 3 of the corpses to make a large scale print out of. I also want to use the project space to show off all of the exquisite corpses when they're all collected. I just put out 4 packets tonight (around 6:00pm) and when I left the school 2 had been taken (9:00pm) I'm super excited.

Weekly plan-
1) I've moved in some of my stuff into my studio, but I need to get more into it. I need to sweep it up a bit too...and there's a light out I need to get fixed.
2) Edit my etching and get my edition done
3) Make more exquisite corpse packets
4) Wednesday I'm going to the city to meet artist Donald Sultan
5) Gather together the names of the shows I've been in
6) Work on some sketches.

Sunday I was a part of the Highland Park Art Fair. It was a lot of fun. There were so many booths. While I feel my stuff is rather dark for Highland Park, I still got a good reaction and even got 3rd place (it was a juried show) in my category (Graphics/Drawing/Printmaking).





Ugh, I want to print the way Daniel EgnÉus paints. I was just looking through this book I have of his. Its the Brother's Grimm fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood. Daniel EgnÉus does the illustrations for it and they're amazing. He's a self taught artist and I'm in love with his style.

Speaking of fairy tales, I actually really love fairy tales. I enjoy the dark original ones best, but I think they are made better with the light hearted ones to compare them by.

On a not so related note, I learned about these crazy trees that, as they age, shed colorful bark.



http://www.kuriositas.com/2010/04/rainbow-eucalyptus.html
This is a great little informational blog on these crazy trees.



And finally, I was watching some short films the weekend and I came across this great one. I'm actually kind of a movie buff. While I don't remember actors names very well, I absolutely LOVE movies and am very inspired by them.