Unfinished?

Here's another one of those collage-things, without the pen-and-ink.  The is the first one I've done, where I really really like it this way, without the ink.  Maybe I should just leave it.....

(If I DO decide to add ink, I'll post it again.)

29 Faces in September--#1 & #2

Ha ha!  I'm cheating, and starting early.  But that's because the last time I did this, I only got 15 done in September.  I did finish them, in December, but this time around, I have high hopes of doing them all in September, as long as I start NOW.  It's only two days early.

But my goal is 29 linocut faces.  I really need to learn how to do linocut, because I have two projects that I'm just dying to do, and I don't have the skills to do them.  I actually have no clue about them at all.  Making linocuts is the only way to learn how to do them--and making lots.  29 Faces in September will be a good was to do that.  There's a link to that on the right, below all my tabs, if you want to check it out.

Each of these blocks is 4 X 6 inches.  I think I'll do the rest with 3 X 5 blocks.

Old Man Collage #4

I'm not sure what to say about this one.  In a way, it's the most "finished" of the four I've done, and in a way, I really like it, but I think I might like the "roughness" of the others a bit more....It will be sitting around for awhile, for me to look at, and I'll probably come to some conclusions about what it still needs.  Actually, I usually do that--what you think or feel upon seeing something when you first walk into a room is very revealing.

Illustration Friday: Power

POWER is taking it all in--all the words, all the perceptions, all the world--and channeling it through yourself.  In it is joy and fear and anger and contentment, and you can't block any of it out.

Must make linocuts!

These past couple weeks I have been in Mexico, getting thoroughly inspired by Mexican print-makers in general, and Mexican linocuts in particular.  So I ordered linoleum, and some decent cutters.  I could see right away that there's some real skill involved.  So these are cutting-practice pieces, printed with really shitty water-soluable ink that was the only thing the local hobby-shop carried....