Writing about my progress is much harder than actually working.

I’ve gotten a lot done since I last posted. I got better, mainly, which upped productivity quite a lot (I’m really restless most of the time and I’m really lousy at having to stay in bed when I’m sick). I’ve got a concrete plan worked out for my Advanced Printmaking class and a lot of transparencies made. Obviously it’s not as much as I would like to get done, but it never is and I think I need to realize that I set unrealistically high goals for myself. I need to focus on working towards goals that I can actually accomplish in the alloted time instead of freaking out about how I’m not getting enough done. (I do a lot of that, if that wasn’t already apparent.)

In terms of photography, I’m getting into the swing of things. I know what I need to do now to get work done for Alternative Process in a timely manner. I’m making really nice negatives (large ones too!) out of inkjet transparencies. They’re all tiled which is working really well with the collage aesthetic I have going. I’m getting ready to try some negatives that aren’t collaged and I’m excited to see how those turn out. In my mind, it’s kind of like a Starn interpretation (like the image on the cover of this book), but probably less apparent that it’s all pieced together. I’m a little bit apprehensive that it’s going to look sloppy and I’m wondering if I should just push the pieced together look even more to make it apparent that that’s what I want it to look like. I guess I won’t know until I see it.

One of the prints that I worked on last week. What you see in purple is part of the watercolor halftone I had up a while ago. I ended up sanding over parts of it to make it blend in a little bit better. I think I might go lighter with the purple for the next two prints.

A close up of the halftone.

The background is different on these two prints, but other than that, they have the same images. I really don’t know how to “edition” these prints, if you can even call it that. They’re basically all unique prints…

A close up of the texture.

I haven’t printed the halftone layer on this one yet, but even without it, this one is my favorite. I like the subtlety that the toned paper gives it. I put a lighter wash of gesso on this one (in contrast to the heavy application on the white one). I think the halftone layer really needs to be light on this particular print.

A detail of the large halftone background texture.

No new pictures yet, I’m really bad about that.