52 prints

46, 47, 48, 49 of 52

 

46/52 I joined a lithography class here in Queretaro. It's the first printmaking studio in the city which makes all the students taking the class "pioneers". I'm very excited about this my first print after 15 years of litho hiatus. 

 

 

47/52 This year I had the honor to be asked to create a print for a lovely family to give as Christmas presents. It's a big deal for me, to have such a lovely friend sponsor my work makes me want to work even harder. It was a 15 print edition.

48/52 This is a print I was working on over and over. It was first made on wood but it didn't worked out the way I wanted it. Note to self: not every kind of wood is good for xilography.  

49/52 After reading The Rizoma by Deluze and Guatari, and having a super nice friend and artist explained it to me in terms of art, I decided to create in a rizomatic way. Easier said than done. It has taking me a lot of effort to stay away from my comfort zone in order to find new imagery. This is the first print I actualy like after lots of drawing, and painting. 

And with these 49 prints I come to the end of my challenge. I ended up three prints short. Disappointed?? not at all. I'm very excited where this year has taken me to. I feel I recovered most of the technical part of printmaking. I was able to be very discipline about my studio time.

The plan for 2015 is to create a dialogue, a project that I can work on for the up coming year 2015. Another highlight of this year is that I met some awesome artist friends with whom I get to share, learn and enjoy in this creative process. Life is good!!

 

 

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I'm still at full speed which makes me feel positive. I won't lie to you, the creative juices sometimes slow down or stop completely for me. I'm reaching out!! I'm joined a painting class with an awesome teacher [personally I think she's more of a professor]. Today I'm starting a lithography class; it's being a long time and I'm rusty... Besides, how exciting is to have a litho studio just ten minutes away from home?!?!

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I made ten or so new seeds in the past weeks. I'm trying to find something else to make and to diversify my work. I feel like I've been repeating stuff over and over again. I don't thing is wrong; it's more like i've been limiting myself to certain boundaries.

 

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I'm happy I finished my redcution print. Not that this is the only thing I've being working on for the last 5 weeks. More to come... 

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The red is down, and the posting is up to date. I love how perfect the red registered!! can you see all the white speck with no blue borders?!?! 

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Almost there!!

37, 38, 39 of 52 catching up

I owed myself these three prints to be up to my 52 prints challenge. They're part of a 5 color reduction print. The biggest challenge for me when working a reduction print is the registrations. This time around I'm having a small edition of ten, and yes, a couple of them didn't get the baby blue perfectly. I'll just keep going, I don't want to stop because of that. 

The yellow circles were kind of monoprinted. I inked the plate and the put a template to get only the circles. I really don't know if this is "legal" but that's what I did. 

I just realized that I'm only 13 prints away to finish my 52 prints porject. So far, it's being a matter of disciple. I'm spending 15 to 20 hrs per week at my printmaking studio where I read, draw, move things around, experiment, and cut lots of paper. Obviously, there are some prints that didn't even made it to this page. I know that I love printmaking but I also know I'm far from where I wish I was as an artist. I'm a mom, I still have lots of responsabilies to my daughters but I don't feel it's burden at all. On the contraire, I feel I'm teaching them to give themselves some space as individuals. As Georgia O'Keeffe said it in her letter to Vernon Hunter: "I have to get along with my divided self the best way I can".

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One of my favorite so far. 14" x 11" monoprint on Hahnemule paper. 

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There's always something new to learn during the creative process. I wonder why it's so hard for my next print to be totally different from the one before. I found some answers in this article: " The benefits of repetitions".