It was a fine day on the farm today. I worked on cleaning perenials for the winter. This drawing of Kip has been evolving over the last few weeks. It is fun to work on it as the moment moves – or as she moves. I do like these colors. 
I played with the idea of self-portraits and simple printing plates. I did a very quick sketch. I cropped the image to fit on to the plate, and then transferred the image to a styrofoam plate. I think this will be a great process from the class that I will be teaching at the Newburyport Art Association this winter. It is fast, flexible and satisfying. For this process less is more and gesture drawing work wonderfully. You can experiment with colored papers, multiple ink colors, masking certain areas and it is so fast and easy that you could make several plates from one drawing depending on how you crop it. I am hopeful that the kids with like it as much as I do. I have tried printing these plates as intaglio plates and have varied results. I think that I will try this with the presses at New Hampshire Institute of Art next friday. http://www.linda-germain.com/
I played with the idea of self-portraits and simple printing plates. I did a very quick sketch. I cropped the image to fit on to the plate, and then transferred the image to a styrofoam plate. I think this will be a great process from the class that I will be teaching at the Newburyport Art Association this winter. It is fast, flexible and satisfying. For this process less is more and gesture drawing work wonderfully. You can experiment with colored papers, multiple ink colors, masking certain areas and it is so fast and easy that you could make several plates from one drawing depending on how you crop it. I am hopeful that the kids with like it as much as I do. I have tried printing these plates as intaglio plates and have varied results. I think that I will try this with the presses at New Hampshire Institute of Art next friday. http://www.linda-germain.com/