The Termites Are At It Again, My Love // Image Copyright © 2010 ♥Ineffable3
So, here’s what it looks like so far -it’s at about 80% right now. The frame work is yet to be done, as well as the addition of the caption, which is really important to the piece.
I know this piece may seem a bit random to some, but if you sit and look through my body of work, you would notice that the heart is an ongoing theme. This particular piece seems to tie everything together. I’ll get a little deeper into how’s and why’s once I reveal the final product ;) Baby, there’s always a story…
The Termites Are At It Again, My Love // Image Copyright © 2010 ♥Ineffable3
More Progress. Back in the summer, I made a terrible decision to stain this piece, not fully understanding the wood I was working with - bad move. The entire heart had to be sanded down to nothingness :( Heartbroken (literally), I abandoned ship until I was able to think clearly and figure out a way to salvage this beauty.
So today, Friday February 5, 2010 I finally solved the problem. Hoooofuckingraaahhh!
Unas Elenas // Printing Day 1 // Image Copyright © 2009 ♥Ineffable3
This is the first finished print out of the 11 test prints completed today. It’s been a while since I’ve used my press - it’s a little fickle at times. The paper creased up a bit but it was still a pretty good outcome for the very first run.
Unas Elenas // Printing Day 1 // Image Copyright © 2009 ♥Ineffable3
My printing table was a little too small for this woodblock, so we needed to extend it a bit. Nothing a trip to Home Depot can’t fix! An hour later, my table was all nice and sturdy and ready for work…
Here I am laying down some ink.
Unas Elenas & The Tale of Two Swifts // Part III // Image Copyright © 2009 ♥Ineffable3
Finished! Now on to the printing phase. Woot!
Printing is the most fun - alot of work, but fun. I have a small printing press my husband bought me a few years back, so I’m hoping this wood isn’t too wide for it. It would be so great to run off prints faster than the usual wooden spoon + lots of elbow grease method.
Shit! Do I even have paper??? Hmm…
Unas Elenas & The Tale of Two Swifts // Part II // Image Copyright © 2009 ♥Ineffable3
Today I’m hoping to get started on the face and chest of the piece. I kept these parts virgin the entire way through because i had a feeling I was going to change a few things up - and you can’t decide to change things once you’ve already carved into it.
FYI, originally the chest/stomach was going to have a heart in it - then I changed it to a bird - then I changed it to a heart. Now it’s going back to the original bird idea. LOL.
Mail Me Art Two // First stages of collage // Image copyright © 2009 Ineffable3
The glue is still pretty wet at this point and there is (as you may have noticed) ALOT of ink that has smeared. This really isn’t too much of a problem, since I’ll be painting over most of it anyway. The goal is to keep my whites white and my blacks black.
Now to let this dry, and take my little monster out for a much needed walk.
Working on Mail Me Art Two
A little info…
The artwork submitted has to be done on the packing envelope or box itself - not inside. Since I’m really trying to get my creative juices flowing again, I figure a collage that remixes/reuses old pieces would be a cool thing to do (hopefully) . Sometimes you need to really sit down with all of your work (good & bad) and give it some quality time.
The artwork on Ineffable3 has a few very distinct styles and it’s hard to create one piece that encompasses all of them evenly, but I’m gonna try.
a chunk o' pine (11w"x31h") & my knives
knife, slipstrop, & gold compound
carving out pebbles
Unas Elenas // In Progress // Images Copyright © 2009 INEFFABLE 3
So after much debating and second guessing my initial design composition - I finally worked things out and got to carvin’ this beatch :)
As I tweeted earlier, I failed to sharpen my knives the last time I used them…so I spent an unnecessary amount of time getting them all sharpy again. Once all that was over and done with, I made the first cut.
ahhhh. siiigh.
I wish I could say that I got a huge portion of the work done in the few hours I was out there - but that’s not the case folks. Carving takes time. It’s a slow methodical process, and it needs to be this way - for safety reasons. These knives are sharp as fuck, and if you aren’t paying attention to what you’re doing, you’re going to cut yourself. Any woodworker or printmaker will tell you: clamp your work, pay attention, and go slow.
Since I value my little fingers, I pay mucho attention to detail.
Virgin & Child // In progress // Image Copyright © 2009 ♥Ineffable3
So far this is a pretty pathetic looking attempt at me wood burning. lol. Thankfully I have a detailer bit to clean up any of the choppy lines. At first, I was just going to burn it and let it be, but now I’m debating whether or not to throw a little bit of color in there. Hmm…
Still got a wayyyys to go. I think I need a little breaky.
Virgin & Child // In progress // Image Copyright © 2009 ♥Ineffable3
Yea, so this is one of those “things” I needed to get out of my system (there’s alot of them folks, so do prepare yourselves) I found some really great reference for all that stuff floating around in my head, so here’s hoping I can purge it all in the coming months - unless I’m struck with some other otherworldly force pointing me in a different direction. Who knows.
p.s. Did I mention that this is on a skate deck?
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