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This print began as a photo of my old studio - one that is half the size of my current space. Needless to say, it was always chaotic, literally overflowing with paper
(hmmmm. . . not unlike my new space. . . .).One of the reasons I'm a poor printmaker is that I work very expressionistically and have a tough time planning ahead. It's impossible for me to plan to second step of a project
before I have the first step in hand and can respond. The problem with this work style is that I'm really playing the percentages, as only about 50 percent of the time things really take off.Here are the stages that these prints evolved through...
1. Line drawing, created in Photoshop from original photo was printed in fuchsia ink.
2. Half the prints were then printed in pearly green with a negative image of the first print, manipulated so that there was less information.
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Those prints were then printed in dark blue with an image of the original line
drawing that was blurred in PhotoShop to make the lines fat. I wanted to see
how the blurred areas would come out. Unfortunately, I forgot the blue filter
on this one, and the paper stuck to the emulsion, creating the weird texture.
This layer gave the print a sort of".. this is my studio on acid'4 feel that I was very unsatisfied with. At this point, I considered this batch a flop.
4. So, I decided to work on the other half of the prints that at this point only had step No.1 printed on them. I laid a piece of drawing paper over the original line drawing and made some quick scribbles with the fine line GOCCO pen. I burned the screen and printed in dark blue. This layer reminded me of what the GOCCO is really great for - sketchy fine lines.
5. Just out of curiosity, I printed the scribbles over the first half of the prints (layer no.4) and actually liked it.
So, here are two views of my chaos that I call "Right Brain Day".
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