So it's been a crazy year that's for sure. I have been slowly working on my printing plates. Right now I have three plates in progress, two of which are in relief using smashed up bullets to create the plates. When inked and printed I get both the texture of the bullets and the ink impressions on the paper. I’m pretty excited about working on them with Andrew Au from FUSE because he has so much knowledge on printing with this kind of process. The third plate is a copper plate that has been shot several times and now I have to make some decisions about hammering or grinding the plate down so it is printable. I also want to etch some images on the plate but I’m still thinking about the subject matter or design, and it changes depending on how I feel that day. I also have some background etching that I want to do with bone designs. I really enjoy how these two processes work out together. It's a lot of fun using two different processes and getting some amazing results.
I have also been working with some amazing photographers getting my artwork photographed and up on my website. I just put two more pieces up in current events. I had the great pleasure of working with Sean Huges to get these pieces out of my studio and into the virtual world. Sean definitely gave the sculpture a lot more life and made the work stand on its own. I was very happy with how he handled all the details. The work is very relevant to what's going on today. The two pieces are called Crowd Pleaser and Crowd Pleaser #2, and they deal with all the gun violence and easy accessibility to guns in our world. Last but not least, I am getting my drawing studio back up and running. I have some old X-Rays waiting to be used to create some cool drawings using bone shapes to overlay on top of one another. I have been having a lot of fun using my light table and overhead projector to get some great shapes and colors using the X-Rays. I think that’s about it for right now but will keep you posted as the projects progress.
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