Craft Works - Let's Get Creative!
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@Steve essentially, yes. Etching, engraving, tattooing could all work in a pinch. But the problem is that this process is both additive and subtractive, and the texture evolves as well, with all the movements of my hand and rubbing of the lines (which itself is a laborious exercise), so it’s not easy to describe what is ultimately taking place on this sheet of paper. That’s why I like to refer to them as zen gardens, since the process is like raking sand with all the paper pulp, pencil dust and broken pieces of color that get accumulated.
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One of these days maybe @Steve. I also have a load of broken leads I can do something with eventually. It’s nice that they can still be useful after they are no longer useful!
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My hands are not as small as theirs
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Getting my shop up and running. Finished out a few old projects and a coupla new ones. Also refinished the Gish Steelworks ring pop & bead.
I love working with Damascus.
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@Jett129 No. It just evolves until the paper can’t take any more. Each peace is essentially a conglomeration of multiple compositions, hopefully woven together through time into a unique and fascinating paradox of figure and ground. It’s not a good way to have an art career, but it produces some unique artifacts that I’m proud to have had the opportunity to create. Thanks for asking!
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I should’ve described myself better, apologies. There is definitely planning involved between layers, as to what to do next in order to unite the previous layers into some vaguely coherent whole, but most of the peaces I’ve posted here all began as something else and evolved into their final composition serendipitously. That will change in the future as I begin new ones and try to integrate what I’ve learned in the process of finishing the old projects, but I still have a few that I’m working on where I’m just making it up as I go. The symmetry is useful for the last few that have come to completion because I was attempting to channel a psychedelic zen garden and the pareidolia and implied order is useful to the experience, even on a base geometric level.
