{"id":4544,"date":"2010-12-08T00:17:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T05:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=4544"},"modified":"2010-12-08T00:17:25","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T05:17:25","slug":"working-toward-collages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=4544","title":{"rendered":"working toward collages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately I feel like I’ve been stuck in neutral, trying to get some new work going.\u00a0 Since I need to get collages finished for the cancer research fundraiser (more on that two posts down) by the end of the month, I decided to do some experimenting on different media to hopefully spur some ideas for future artwork and may be use some of what I make into the collages.\u00a0 So, for the past few days, I’ve been giving myself a little time each night to work on some ideas.<\/p>\n

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I started with a line digital line drawing and printed it on fabric that I discharged with bleach.<\/p>\n

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I then tried some different colorways, making the color adjustments using Photoshop.<\/p>\n

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And another.\"\"<\/p>\n

And another.\"\"
\nThis is another try, on a larger piece of fabric.\u00a0 I printed it using my Epson Stylus Pro 7900.\u00a0 The printer is fussy.\u00a0 If it senses one thing off, it spits out the paper.\u00a0 In other words, it’s important that the bottom and sides be perfectly straight.\u00a0 I’m always a bit nervous using that printer.\u00a0 At times I think I should have kept my 7600.\u00a0 At least with it, I didn’t worry about whether I’d break something.\u00a0 However, I am hoping that eventually I come to love the printer and stop worrying about breaking it. (Did I mention my good lens was just returned from Nikon?\u00a0 I dropped it – again.\u00a0 My latest camera body is also at Nikon getting fixed.\u00a0 And I’m on my third flash because, well, I dropped one and can’t find the other.) Initially the printer only printed about 4 inches before kicking out the paper.\u00a0 I then went back to the digital file, tried to estimate how much printed, sectioned off that area, and filled it with white.\u00a0 I then printed on the same piece again.\u00a0 I like the overprinting.<\/p>\n

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\nThis is the same design but printed on tyvec cloth.\u00a0 On this, I added some random squiggles.<\/p>\n

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The same image again, but printed on a thin lutrador.\u00a0 It’s very sheer, so I put it top of the other print and placed a piece of\u00a0 watercolor paper that I painted with Procion dye in a bright yellow mix between the two.
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Here’s a close-up.\u00a0 I like what’s going on here and am pondering what I can do with this stuff.<\/p>\n

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I also printed several pieces of thin metal.\u00a0 Some I bent up, like the one on the lower right.\u00a0 I’m not sure what I’ll do with them, if anything, but my goal was to print a variety of things on different media.
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\nHere’s the same design again, printed on a light weight lutrador.\u00a0 It’s sitting on a piece of cloth tyvec that I painted with metallics.<\/p>\n

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\nHere are some of the cloth tyvec with metallic paint pieces, but I hit them with heat to scrunch them up.\u00a0 I may over-paint them, depending on what, if anything, I end up doing with them.<\/p>\n

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\nThis is a double print on tyvec.\u00a0 The first time, the tyvec was used as a base when I printed a sheer.<\/p>\n

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\nAt this point I’m playing around with things.\u00a0 The color of the tape measure add a good splash of color, and I like some of\u00a0 the sections of print have some possibilities.\u00a0 I can see some of the lines being extended with hand stitching and paint.\u00a0 I’m pondering all kinds of things.\u00a0 Will I get any of it into a collage?\u00a0 No idea.\u00a0 I may end up tossing it all in a pile with other experiments.\u00a0 But at least I’m doing something to get the juices going.\u00a0 And, because I have a due date for the collages, I also got sidetracked and continued on with another series of designs that are still on paper and in my computer.\u00a0 Will any of it be made into new artwork?\u00a0 Who knows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lately I feel like I’ve been stuck in neutral, trying to get some new work going.\u00a0 Since I need to get collages finished for the cancer research fundraiser (more on that two posts down) by the end of the month, I decided to do some experimenting on different media to hopefully spur some ideas for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-artquilt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4544"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4570,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions\/4570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}