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Hooked Rug, 1935-45, Canada.

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assorted prints, not going to try so hard with printing moving forward bc nobody cares about it and you can't get shows doing it

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going to teach myself how to do technical drawing/drafting without any help other than whatever ~60s era textbooks i can take out from the library. For Art

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forever grateful for the deep well of stubbornness i can tap into that allows me to not give a shit about things

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yes!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"horse print", 6"x17" 3-colour lithograph, ed. of 10

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things are fucked but at least there's photolitho. left print is waiting for its cyan layer, right one is Done

also got a table at expozine! it's the little things

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some more of these

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also here's a state proof of an intaglio i'm working on. going to etch some more into it this week; planning on getting more tone because we've been taught how to aquatint. current tint is from a total of like 1 minute in the acid so it's v much easy does it type vibes

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ended up doing 3 cheeky little layers

litho is complete pain and suffering but also look at this little guy

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You may say what you want

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Yellow Sea Snake (Hydrophis platurus xanthos), family Elapidae, Costa Rica

Venomous.

This is an all yellow subspecies of the Yellow-bellied or Pelagic Sea Snake.

photograph by Alejandro Solórzano

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i feel like describing it as pain and suffering doesn't quite get across what litho entails so here is my abridged explanation of how many steps there are between blank stone and print:

levigate the stone, which is a fancy word that means "abrade it with an old-ass tool and some grit for an hour until it's level". depending on how cooperative the stone is and how even you are w/ grinding, this can take A While.

seal the borders of your stone w/ gum arabic.

draw on the stone with grease. do not touch the surface of the stone, because it will pick up the grease from your hands and it'll show in your print.

etch your drawing w/ acid to clean any errant grease and sharpen the image, then seal it with gum arabic. congratulations, your stone is now "closed" and the image is semi-stable.

remove the grease you drew in with solvent, wet your stone, and replace the grease with oil-based ink. etch again to make sure your image is clean and re-seal your stone with gum arabic.

remove the ink with solvent, wet the stone, replace the ink, and now you can print.

between every 3-5 passes of your ink roller over the stone you have to wet it again with a sponge. if you don't do this, you can ruin your image. if you use too much ink, you can ruin your image. if you breathe on it wrong, you can ruin your image.

Good Luck!

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litho is complete pain and suffering but also look at this little guy