The Fuji Frustration

Well the last few days I have gone thru two packs of the fuji film for my polaroid camera... been trying different things to see what works and what doesn't... I can shoot the NORMAL good shot... but then I have been trying transfers/ double exposures -ect.  Yesterday and today I ran into more "what doesn't works"....  It has kinda left me frustrated. But it is also good because I am learning ... It is just hard to pull one shot after another and have them not come out.... AND the last 2 images come out together - which ruins them!!!! Which means that the images that HAVE been good shots have cost me about $7 bucks each!!!  Grrrrrrrrrr 

I went and bought 2 more packs of film. Tomorrow I hope that I will be able to shoot 2 exposures on the same shot! I spent a bunch of them trying to make it work... Well, tomorrow I'll see how good it comes out! 

Fuji (polaroid) transfer

So I decided to give a transfer a try!!  The first one AGAIN - turned out all black! - I was kinda in the dark when I tried the transfer - but it hit me that I probably needed to try it with the room darker! -- The second one is the image below - It came out but I wanted to see what it was like on vellum... the vellum buckled... BUT now I know / I can do it on arches paper or another and it will totally work! So exciting!

 

(Ok back to work... I'm working on a copper etching - but just HAD to take a break to try this out!)

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Polaroid Camera

Well, yesterday I had worked all day on printmaking -printing the fisherman print, and then 2 screen prints that I will add on here soon. After that I went to see about buying fuji 100c film to test my new polaroid camera... but they were out of film! But it wasn't ALL a waste of time.. I found out that I need a battery and was able to buy his LAST ONE! =)   

Today I cleaned the old battery attachments, and then discovered that I needed to clean the rollers.  - I love all the lil aspects of what goes into having the camera. The ways that it was put together and works. I think about today - how we have these 8 gig memory of 100s of images that we can see on a screen in seconds... and how these old cameras were shooting "INSTANT FILM" - BUT... you have to figure out your settings of focus, lighting, type of film- ect with these lil knobs and pull levers - Then shoot, pull the plastic, pull the image, "preheat" it for a minute, and then peal it.  -- ALL of that for 1 INTANT IMAGE... and you only have 10 shots to make the "perfect" shot. - I love it!  

Well I bought the film today and got it all loaded in the camera - couldn't wait to get home to do a test shot so I pulled over and shot at this location I knew about - I figured I would get a lil of each color in the shot. -- The first one I shot came out BLACK - but it was because I had to figure out which film setting would work. The second came out great! I was really happy to learn that the camera works!! I am saving the other shots for another day - to create some specifically thought out shots - perhaps focussing on a series of work.

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Linoleum Print: fisherman

Here is 2 alternatives of the Fisherman print - The first is with watercolor painted in. The second was with another inked block.

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Polaroid Camera

Totally excited by a little surprise!! -- I was given an old polaroid camera this morning! =) It has everything - the flash, the case, the instructions - everything! I just need to see about going and getting the film and I am set! 

I read a bunch of the directions - and was cracking up when I realized everything that people had to do to get their shots! hahaha  -- BUT then it was REALLY funny when I read from the Polaroid Cold-Clip (a metal clip that after pulling an image you place it inside the clip to keep it warm while developing.) So the clip says: " When in doubt about the temperature, USE IT ANYWAY." - That cracked me up! - It was like saying HEY STUPID -Just do what we say! hahaha --- Then I liked how it said something about PREHEATING the clip.... and I was like PREHEATING??? - HOW? - Besides it is metal... you wouldn't put it in the micro!.... ?  but it said "Preheat cold-clip in warm inside pocket for 5 minutes." =)  hahaha "preheat" - with body heat -hahaha...  - Anyway HOPEFULLY I'll have some new images up soon! 

Linoleum Print: fisherman

Here is a lil progression of the printing from last Friday.

Getting things ready.

Inking the two linoleum blocks.

The two blocks prints - printed.

A little hand coloring just for something more.

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Scanogram

A scanogram I did last week.

Like always - I'm trying different things! =)

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Photo Shoot

         For the past 4 months I have been taking a little hiatus from doing photo shoots with my models. This was to give me some time to work on the other types of artwork, coffee book designs, gallery work, ect. It has been very BUSY but, a great time of productivity. 

         I have put together 3 of the coffee books, but want to possibly add a few new shots to it. I also have been using a bunch of the images from the last series of shoots I shot - to create the different types of Printmaking artwork that I have created over these last few months. So I haven't been setting up or shooting anything for a while, but have been considering setting a few new shots up to continue the work I have already started. 

        The other day one of my models that I have repeatedly worked with called me and wanted to do a little shoot. We have both been on a hiatus and needed something to break the ice, and start shooting again. I'm still pretty busy and don't really have the time to be setting up shoots and EDITING the shots!!!  -but we went out and shot / had a GREAT LUNCH! =))))  Here's one of the shots.

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Lith Printing

Today I got a chance to try something new - well, NEW to me! hahaha  Lith Printing has been a round for a long time. I found this process totally interesting... 

The photo (below) comes from a blk/wht negative, and I have created blk/wht photos from it in the past. But this time, using the lith developers we are able to get different tones from the blk/wht image. All 3 photos had the same amount of exposure time but are on three different types of paper- each of which gives a different tonal look. Likewise each print (using the same paper) will have a slight different and original look from the next. This is because of how the chemical reacts to the paper and the way that the crystals in the paper are effected will be slightly different then some in the next sheet or paper. 

I really loved the Slavic paper (2cd photo above) - It had a beautiful grainy feel to it, and I think I would have liked it more on a different image. But for this photo I liked this paper below because of the way that it gave an old look and feel. (I'll post the brand of paper soon.) 

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Intaglio & Chine Colle'

Last week I had created this intaglio print from a plastic plate. It is 11.75"x 15.75" -- I then decided that I wanted to make it into a chine colle' intaglio print.- Here are two examples. 

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Work in Progress: Woodblock

A test print from the woodblock that I was carving out of a lil over a week ago.  I've been juggling a few different types of work all at the same time. It allows me time to think abotu what I should do or cut... so I wanted to do a lil state proof to check out how it was coming along...   -- The first one is fully inked and the second is a ghost print from the left over ink.  So I need to think about how to cut the rest to give it a lil more fine detail... 

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More Pinhole Camera Photos: Beach

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Dreaming of Art Processes

The other morning I woke up dreaming about an art process to try out! It isn't the first time - and I just always find it funny or odd to think about how most people just dream about some person chasing them or old friends or whatever... But that often I dream about how I might try this or that with some new process I have never thought about.... How I might mix up two different ideas or use this and that with photoshop in order to get a look I want... Or that I want IN MY DREAM - hahaha. I just always find it so funny! Sometimes I wake up and I think that the dream had a great idea... other times the dream has a great idea but... ??? there was some impossible aspect to it.... Like maybe I need to be in zero gravity to create this or that kinda pattern and then hit it with a blue laser - hahaha you know? But then there are times that some part of the process and dream really gives me insight to some new idea to try...   ... I just love to wake up knowing that I had been creating in my sleep - and while others are dreaming about other things I get to create some of the impossible creations... even if it is only seen in my dreams. 

New Screen Prints

I have been working on a few new screen prints from some models I worked with a while back - taking some of my old photography and reworking it into new forms of art. I am hoping to find a way to incorporate this into some of my future work. 

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