Two -Lane Blacktop

This title might seem a bit esoteric but it refers to a back road used in drag-racing in 70s America - there were three cult films at the time - Two-Lane Blacktop,  Electra-Glide in Blue and Vanishing Point, and I saw in obituaries over the weekend that the director of VP died just last week -he was only ever known for that film.

Anyway.. the reason I use a road title rather than the customary path is because everything has instantly moved up several gears and I am already at the stage of trying to figure out timings and how many different things can be fitted in.

Last week we began litho and I have, under instruction, returned to serious drawing, something I now realise I haven't done for quite some time. I am working on a group of teeth which I have set up as a landscape:

 

It certainly fulfils the ideas of structure, system and space, but it has been requested that the drawings be serious, rather than sketches of ideas which is what I certainly have been doing for a while. I am working on variations which I will show later.

 

The other concept of teeth and steel, rust and decay I will defer for a bit , but I intend to return to this area.

 

I should say that this is Sunday and the first part was written this morning -I have been doing a lot of drawing and some interesting results ensued......but not yet.

 

Thursday night I went along to Limerick Printmakers to do some screenprinting with Derek which for one reason or another I didn't manage to finish ( I had put my car in Arthurs Quay and they were closing at ten - I should really have gone back but I was just too tired and I had a long drive home. I have collected what I did and I will get the second image and finish the work in school.

Thanks Derek for all your help and you are missed.

 

Some pics of people you might know:

 

 

I think we should have this in the printshop

 

I just love this  and I remembered it from my first visit to Printmakers

 

Where we worked

 

My images

 

 

If and when I manage to finish them I will post.

 

The other interesting visit was to Damer House in Roscrea to fulfil I promise I made the previous week .:

 

 

This is part of an international print show that sadly finished last Friday and was being shown in a well-hidden gallery upstairs in Damer House.

 Here area few print together with some of their stories:

 

 

I put this one in at an angle to show the blind embossing which I love

 

 

 

This will give you some idea of what the theme of the show was and here are two with their stories:

 

 

 

You may recognise this woman as the author of one of very valuable print manuals -

 

it will move you.

 

 

Therry Rudin is one of the Roscrea curators and I had met her and Patricia Hurl in Thurles the previous week and I had said I would see the show - I hope a lot of of people did see it.