Mel

22 | NYC Ello~ I'm a maker-printmaker based in New York. I enjoy working with pencil, micron pens, ink and paper. I'm passionate about etching, screen printing, all things handmade, oddities, cats, plants, nature, tea, and coffee. This is where I upload my drawings, fanart, prints, doodles, works in progress, and other crafts. melissaperalta.com

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When I am dead, my dearest,

Sing no sad songs for me;

Plant thou no roses at my head,

Nor shady cypress tree:

Be the green grass above me

With showers and dewdrops wet;

And if thou wilt, remember,

And if thou wilt, forget.

I shall not see the shadows,

I shall not feel the rain;

I shall not hear the nightingale

Sing on, as if in pain:

And dreaming through the twilight

That doth not rise nor set,

Haply I may remember,

And haply may forget.

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Grow in the darkness

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The moon knows your secrets

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I love being just like every other girl in the world and catching glimpses of myself in other girls, in ancient lit, anywhere a girl has been so have I

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A Yayoi Kusama inspired pumpkin

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A preliminary sketch for the first prompt, werewolf. I used Tamino’s face as a reference, because why not?

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Pull of the Moon

This was my first attempt at lithography and I never got a decent print of this image. So instead, here is my polyester plate.

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A two-layer lithograph print of Yuzuru Hanyu I made for the biffle, Atsushi. Printed on rice paper with black and silver ink.

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I've been really busy printing these. They are all different because I did a gradient blend on both layers(which is hard to keep consistent). But like plants, they are each unique. I will be turning these into terrarium coin purses to sell on Etsy and at Mocca.

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Finally finished my edition of 5 for my advanced etching class. I worked so much on my plates that I spent very little time actually printing.

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Picture of me and the cat pillow I made for my professor. 🙃

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Pictures from the day we mounted our wallpapers.

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A repeatable wallpaper I designed this semester for my advanced screenprinting class. Inspired by the slogan "they tried to bury us but they didn't know we were seeds", being used in protests for the disappearance of the 43 missing students in Mexico. It started out as a small pencil sketch which was scanned, enlarged and redrawn in Photoshop.

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At last, I have a website!

I’m still in the process of adding more works and plan on adding descriptions.

melissaperalta.com

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Worked on an ol' tiny etching. I added an aquatint background and some dry point details in the crown.