I have been busy in the studio with a few new ideas in the works. So other then continuously working on my Bone obsession I have recently started working on Etching plates. This has been an amazing experience for me. I get to work with an amazing studio, FUSE Press, where I'm learning a lot about etching and have started creating etching backgrounds for my Bones series. The etching backgrounds are filled with so much life and artistic process that I am almost happy to leave them as is. Who knows some of these backgrounds may just end up in another series I work on from time to time called Stains. Either way I have been having a blast with Nitric acid and steel plates creating lots of backgrounds. Now I just need to come up with some Bone images to screen print on top of these killer backgrounds.
Another Idea I heard about and wanted to try was printing with steelwool. I had a blast researching and figuring out how to print with this new medium. I ended up spreading it out to a thin 18x24 sheet for printing. Then figuring out how to ink it up and get it to print exactly the way I wanted was no easy task. Once I got the desired effect after many test prints it became a beautiful background for a Bones edition I did. I was pretty excited with how it turned out So in all the fun I started coming up with some new ideas. The one I am currently getting together is a copper plate thats been shot with a small caliber rifle. I will have to address the damage its done to the plate and make it printable. Once that is done I will probably print it to see how it looks. After that, I have a ton of brass bullet casings I will flatten and start soldering the to the copper plate. Once I get a few in place I will continue to print the plate and see where it takes me. I'm going for more of an embossed look with minimal etching, more using the ammo to create the etch or the damage to the plate. This process is helping me work though my issues of all that's wrong in the world. I think that's about it for right now other than constantly seeing the world through sad eyes with everything that is going on. I see the world through art and it helps me make some sense in my mind of all the craziness. Keep an eye out for more ideas to come and who knows maybe I will open the flood gates and start putting some not so pretty art back out there as food for thought. For if we are not constantly redefining ourselves we will never change and we need to constantly change to keep our world free of hate.
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