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Contemporary artists!
Thaes:
I have to admit, those works of art by James Gleeson are the best artistic things I´ve seen in a while.
Lines:
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Oh for serious. Do you etch? Or printmake, anyways?
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Printing is the best! I need to find my notes from when I visited the print dept. at the art museum, because there was this MASSIVE multi-plate etching that was phenomenal. (Well, it was massive for an etching, as large etchings are kind of rare.)
Darkbluerabbit:
Printmaking is my emphasis at college.
The metal you make plates with is really expensive, so it is easy to see why not many printmakers work large. I've always preferred working small, so I enjoy it as a medium. Also it involves asphalt, hot copper, and acid that can eat through metal, and art is better when it holds potential for injury.
It is cool that there are other printmakers here, because I can show this and have people who understand how completely insane this guy's attention to detail is.
Sirens-Art Werger
That is a multiplate etching, which is mind-blowing. I like his black and white stuff a lot better, but the control he has over color is just fucking incredible.
Lines:
Well, size limitations also have to do with the size of the press you're working on, as presses only get so big and you have to have a press for etching. So yeah, etchings and lithographs on a large scale are rare due to both cost of supplies as well as the press you're working with. (Printing is my emphasis as well.)
And yes, that is insane for a color etching. I thought it was a watercolor or some form of painting at first.
dancarter:
I almost passed by this without reading it, thinking "oh, that's a nice watercolour...". That is insane. I spent two semesters doing printmaking (I paint now) and to think I complained about having to do two colour or four colour with four different techniques in one piece. Stuff like this baffles me because I don't have the patience for it.
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