Time to stop being precious, so here is a run-down on what 'I have been doing.
First a selection of photos I made at home using extracted teeth , modelling clay and various bits ironmongery - as rusty as I could get it.
I was very keen on this last image...
but it was rightly pointed out to me that when made into a print the central object ie the tooth -would rather disappear, so I looked again at what I had made and selected this one:
and I began to do drawings of it:
This one was not great so it was suggested that I should use just one medium, ie a pencil, charcoal and so on:
I then decided to adapt the first one by means of collaged card:
And I feel that that is the sort of effect I would like to try for in the litho, Here is the stone ready for first colour:
I will follow up as the process goes on.
Here is the wall - harmless compared to last years histrionics:
I have been thinking a bit about artists who interest me and whose work relates albeit elliptically, to what I am doing. The present project has the air of a monumental landscape so that brought me once more to the art of Andy Goldswothy and Richard Long:
This second one particularly reminded me of the teeth in the clay, And the following fissures equally recalled the fractured clay.
Today I had an very interesting tutorial with Kieran Cashell and he suggested an artist I had not thought of but whose work had always fascinated me; I will delve here and see if this can take me in another direction. I am happy for now to use the teeth but I don't think I wish them to be more that a station on the way.
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