Legs again
my art, prints :: posted on August 18th, 2008
The prints I’m working on at the moment - at least some of them - are aiming towards a little exhibition in October in the Top Gallery. It will be an opportunity for me to see if the group of prints work in an exhibition space, and say what I want them to say - whatever that is!
The above print is actually a detail from a larger print, but as always I’m drawn to the leg section rather than the whole. I’m working it as a print of just the legs as well. The thing about a lithograph is that it only lasts as long as the stone is kept with a protective coat of gum to seal the image tightly in, and of course as soon as you want to work up a new image thew stone is ground off, taking away the image layer. As opposed to the etching, which is on a plate that lasts as long as you want really. Discarded only to the scarp metal merchant, when all is said and done. I tend to be impatient with my lithograph stones, always wanting to move onto the next image, so I don’t tend to print many of each lithograph.
The print above is a combination of lithograph for the legs, etching for the flora and watercolour paint and ink to add detail.
