Hello, its been a while, sorry to keep you guys waiting. I’ve been building this over the past few weeks.
This is a rough draft of the anatomy of the two figures I’m sculpting:
I really enjoy how the different muscles of the arm seem to “weave” together to form the arm. I also enjoy the “money [...]
All right! I’ve learned a new technique! Aquatint. Before I was only able to make shading through cross hatching, where I use lines that criss cross to create value. Now I have a way to make a comparatively smooth gradient.
Hey all,
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I’m not just an art major, I’m also a chemistry major. Here’s what I did in a chemistry lab last week:
Well finally, the hard ground process comes to a close. When we left off, I had soaked my plate in acid. After about 20 minutes of soaking I stripped off the hard ground and rosin with mineral spirits and denatured alcohol.
Well this Wednesday, I did part two of the process of hard ground etching, where hard ground refers to a wax used to resist the acid used to etch the plate.
I had my first demonstration in my new printing class of Intaglio (pronounced in-tal-ee-oh). The new process is fascinating! I’m preparing my first technique with etching.
