Workshop #1 Complete

The weekend went by too quickly at Aurobora Press, in San Francisco. Today, there was a Giant’s game going on in the background, as the studio is just a few blocks from the ballpark. So, there was a lot of foot traffic in the alley, but we were immersed in our work.

I started the day continuing with the fish, and getting more sophisticated with layering and textures, thanks to the good instruction from Master Printer Deb Sibony. But in the end, partly due to my desire to always use out all my inks, I worked with the red and black on my palette that I had not been using in the fish pieces. The result, six 13×13 monotypes with 8×8 plates, are works I’m very happy with. I used a scratch tool to incise the circles after laying in the black and red ink with a brayer using the techniques Deb taught us today.

I love to use the circles in my work, and I was able to do several ghost prints from the plates, alternating with adding Olivera oil to the centers of the circles along with more contrasting ink. When I got home, and back to my vast pile of ephemera, only a few pieces of torn paper were needed to complete the series. We return to Aurobora in about a month. In the meantime, I have a lot to do to make the fish series more complete. I’ll show some of those base images in tomorrow’s blog. It’s late and my feet hurt.