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Published: 2009-04-30 04:58:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 1724; Favourites: 33; Downloads: 24
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homage to odilon redon... his influence is second only to HPL!!third image in my thesis series. the colour is pthalo green mixed into bone black ink.
hard line etching, aquatint, and burnishing on rives lightweight paper
THE SCAN IS HORRIBLE
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This is top notch design technique, it should be used as an example in a classroom setting.
The line quality is very high. The lighting really gives it that 3D feeling as well as the edged lines that spiral into the backround (the rock cave is very implied) even the little pebbles have lighting.
What is most important are how many different types of lines used, the viewer can easily distinguish objects.
Putting this into a 3D program would be fun, because it already has such a great structure and can easily be brought into a wire frame.
Design textbooks might even pay to reference this.
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i still have one of your original proofs of this piece...still reminds me of my dog begging for a treat...one day i'll have if framed and hang it prominantly
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awww... thanks jack!!! you're too kind
perhaps it too is begging for a treat! you're guess is as good as mine!!
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i like your style and i too know how much work goes into a piece like this, if only i had a scanner big enough for my more... whats the word contemporary art.
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This ones kind of gross, but I like the other 2 very well.
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gross how? which 2 did you like (there are 8 total thesis etchings)?
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Sorry, I only saw three of them, cant remember which ones. But hey, whats one persons opinion, if every one else says its good, then I just got crappy taste.
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Beautiful composition... hang in there with the art school, you will survive and be glad in the end!
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thank you madame
ugh! if i can just finish editioning these prints i'll finally be free!!
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Oh man. I'm just finishing a general printmaking course this semester for my art minor, and have discovered that I love etching, but this and your other pieces totally blow me out of the water! 
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yaaay! i'm glad you love etching... most people hate it because it's so labor intensive. are you going to continue with etching? if you do, i have a warning for you: the medium tends to make one obsessive. but, i think you have to be a bit obsessive to actually be turned on to etching in the first place
hey, let me know when you post your print work!
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I definitely will! 
I think it was probably the overall process involved with etching that makes it my favorite over, say, carving linoleum plates (which we also did). Art equals a kind of meditation for me, so anything that lets me "zen out" and focus (like beading) wins, and I found that with etching. The sense of having to watch the amount of pressure I applied, how wide the lines are, etc... I'm sure you know most of this already from experience. It's good for the mind, I've discovered.
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I love how you got the tones in the fore and background. Is that from aquatint, or burnishing? Also, I totally dig the grainy aquatint.
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thank you so much!!
it's all aquatint... so many aquatints! i can't even guess how many times i had to block out the creature, vines, and entrance to add more aquatint. burnishing was done in the whiter rock areas on the ground and in the centres of the vines. this plate took FOREVER to do, but it was a labor of love
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wow thats really cool.. I love how he is facing you directly! And that tunnel is done amazingly... ^___^ I really like how you used different textures in this piece... great job...
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