Yesterday i did a workshop on printmaking. Following on from that I am looking at body printing this week. Body printing is a temporal performance art that captures a portrait of the body at that moment in time (temprary)
One body print artist that I am inspired by is Elizabeth Walden. Walden, inspired by David Hammons (another body print artist I will look into) started body printing in 2013. She puts vegetable oil mixed with pigments on her body, makes a print, then she uses that print as a basis or a landmark for her landscape artworks.
(Images credit: www.elizabethwalden.com)
By nature some of her artworks are abstract or semi-representational .
I love Walden's use of colour and layering through printing. I can't wait to start creating body prints like these this week!
So you know how we’re all reading the EDAs on that crappy pdf torrent / archive that’s been going around for over a decade (that’s when I first got mine)?
I, simply, cannot read poorly formatted books. I absolutely cannot.
So I’ve been creating new ePubs of the books for use in eReaders. I’m having a blast doing it.
If anyone wants them, or really any of the out of print DW books from that torrent, let me know, and I’ll put that book at the front of my queue. I’d love to help the fandom out with my ADHD super power to enjoy tedious monotony, as long as it relates to my hyperfocus.
See also my Listening Order post lol.
EDIT: linked it here since the post with the link isn’t being reblogged as much.
EDIT 2: If you'd like to help, or just hang out, I made a Discord for the project.
DW eBook Preservation Society
Today I learned how to use the eco- friendly Risograph machiene. This oil based printing process is amazing for the environment and for illustrations.
First I did my base layer on a white page and then I did my highlight layer on tracing paper.
I did a print of my spine temporarily bent when I had scoliosis(temporary medical condition of the human body that is reversed with surgery).
We were using the colours yellow and blue which completely overlapped for my prints making them green and yellow . The yellow acts as the hazy colour of the skin/mass in the x-ray of my spine that I had as my primary source for this piece.
I will definately be using this machine to make more eco friendly cartoon animation style prints. I also plan on looking at the risograpgh print artists Irene Rinadi who also did a risograph print of a spine x-ray as part of her artwork entitled "5 & 3/4"
I'm thinking abt that pretty fall leaves embroidery pattern post and about how like... it is categorically a repost, it's a reupload. right? a thing that is generally disliked. but because it's credited, it's genuinely boosting the artist in question.
and it could ALWAYS be like this. reposting content could ALWAYS be a symbiotic relationship, but because sourcing back to the original creator of something is so uncommon, it's just easier to ask people not to repost it at all. and people still don't understand the difference. or they'll go to the effort of cropping out usernames/signatures to repost something, which is More Effort than literally crediting the creator of something you liked enough to want to repost.
Like. I literally don't actually care if my own shit gets reposted, you have to understand. I just don't want it STOLEN. But "do not repost" is easier to write on my art than "you can repost this, but don't alter the image/remove my signature, don't you dare write 'credit goes to the artist' because that is not credit, please link back to my original post or someplace that you can actually find me. please use an actual link/url instead of writing a non-clickable link of my username, because making it text instead of a clickable link cuts the number of people who will go to the effort of visiting my own page in Half."
All those aggregate themed accounts, those fuckin annoying as hell instagrams and facebook groups that are like "body positive art we love wamen 💕 hashtag feminism" and then MASS-STEAL plus sized art created by women, if pages like these that always go and steal my older self-portraits and other works... If they just put a link to my prints of those pieces in the text of those posts, or, fuck, my commission info page? I would literally be living on the moon right now. I would have a house on the moon