Above is a photograph of most of my fork collection, arrayed by size and type. A reasoned edit was the goal yesterday and I wanted to see them all in one place and count them.
I’ve long been a collector of forks
Author: edaggarart
Visuals and fork collectrix. Artist and designer. Author of The Museum, an artist's blog.
The calm monochrome that follows the feast days
These days following the winter feasts bring a quiet with them, not necessarily unwelcome. Often grey and a little lonely, or too-quiet for some, yet there is a gentleness to them that eases the emotional tumult forced by the calendar shift into a new year. When I was younger, I longed for the new year… Continue reading The calm monochrome that follows the feast days
Crossing into a new year armed with a pen
New Year's Eve: the borderlands of the year; symbol of hope, renewal, revelry. To some, the biggest party of the year. To others, just a day like all the others. I reckon my take on it falls somewhere in between. It's nice to mark it, to be in the company of others, but not the… Continue reading Crossing into a new year armed with a pen
The Witch-boy: line etch proof
Here is a scan of an initial proof of my line-etching of the witch-boy. This is the result of scratching my drawing into a waxy coating over the copper plate, called a hard ground. After coating the plate, you can transfer your (reversed) image onto the surface to guide you as you make your lines… Continue reading The Witch-boy: line etch proof
A witch-boy wanders woods at the full moon
Meet the witch-boy. He surfaced toward the end of my Inktober series for this year. I did a couple more sketches of him after the first, intrigued. A few weeks ago I began studying intaglio again, and decided I'd like to do an etching of this guy, but that initial sketch needed some work, it… Continue reading A witch-boy wanders woods at the full moon
Second week in the printmaking studio
Here is a picture I took with my phone after working the drawing in the hard ground, then immersing the plate for three 'bites' in the acid. This plate will serve as my re-entry to the world and techniques of etching, since it's been over 7 years since I took my first class, so I… Continue reading Second week in the printmaking studio
Soon there will be snow in the air and the grey will set in
Here is the cleaned-up inked version of the house. Next is time to trace it and then transfer the revered version of this to the plate, below: Here is the tracing paper after transferring the image. As you can see, I replaced the original trees. I used a white charcoal pencil on the tracing paper to… Continue reading Soon there will be snow in the air and the grey will set in
Paper-dry leaves crunch beneath our feet, and the wind is picking up
Tuesday I went to my first class in over 7 years— returning to the art of copperplate etching (intaglio). I've a small plate ready to work on before my next class on Tuesday. This is the wee sketch I did for it today. It needs finessing, and then I'll transfer it in reverse to my… Continue reading Paper-dry leaves crunch beneath our feet, and the wind is picking up
The last few drawings from Inktober
I lost my momentum toward the end of the month. I remained a day or two behind schedule, and when catching up was posting to social media, but not here each day, So this post is a bit of catch up. So there totaled three drawings of the witch-boy, leading up to Halloween. The final… Continue reading The last few drawings from Inktober
All around All Hallow’s Eve— catch up drawings
Here’s what I haven't posted the past few days— and I'm still three days behind! But the missing drawings will be forthcoming. I’m a man of my word, dammit. Above, Day twenty-seven: : The witch boy on a night walking beneath the pointy crescent moon. Day twenty-six: My FACE! Here’s a variation, as I already… Continue reading All around All Hallow’s Eve— catch up drawings
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