Mark Making

It's been about six weeks since I had the opportunity to see Santa Fe. I know that each blog post is usually about the day's events. But the images from that visit continue to sit in recent memory, in recurring shapes, colors, and lines. It's a visual vocabulary that expands. 
 

Marking Pens

It's rare that I apply paint after printing. But these line might convince me otherwise. For the thick line I've used a Posca pen with a wide foam tip to add acrylic paint in a wide line. The thin white marking pen is from Mirabu and is called a fashion liner. I like that white line.
 

Seeing in Hindsight

 

I don't consciously think about the marks I make, that they have meaning or symbols, or even that one follows another. I think that I see the correlation after the fact. I find something I see everyday (road tar) and link it to something I make (printed pillow). It's just the editor making the connection, not the artist.

Mark Making

Hand lettered on to porcelain over steel panel, this sign has the delicacy of a calligrapher's mark. It is the "r" that gets me. Can't think this art will continue for future signs, but may influence graphic designers who admire typographic roots.
 

Mark Making

Tomorrow a room of eager printers will gather at the Schweinfurth wet studio and delve into making marks on fabric. This Tony Tuckson painting "White lines (vertical) on ultramarine" might influence their large, graphic, rough and immediate strokes.

Start the Clean-Up

Layers of stuff that traveled this summer to workshops have landed on the print table. Now I'm ready for a week of printing, and these give me ideas for the week. Brush strokes from soy wax may work out fine on a screen. Or just directly drawn on a plate for monoprinting. Such finds.