Cleaned up from my original sketch, and all readying to be monotyped and lithographed. My drawing background has, until recently, been very tight and etching-like; quite probably why I became a printmaker in the first place. But over the last year I've been experimenting with this looser kind of mark-making and since a new image from the Thanatos Archive was fresh in my head, this is what came out.
On a slightly related note, does attending an artist's presentation/demo give anyone else the itch to sketch? It's like I can't help it, even if the artist is totally engaging, like Hannah Bertram was Monday night, I have to doodle or sketch while they're talking and demoing. It's like I absorb their creative energy through osmosis.
Hannah Bertram, by the way. HOLY AWESOME. She kept comparing her dust installation work to print, and it totally is. Super inspiring, and she was so open to helping and giving advice to those of us about to strike out into our own 'real world' practices. Must be the teacher in her, but still really appreciated.
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