#printober

[brettgrunig]

I was inspired by Lord Dunsany's novel, The King of Elfland's Daughter, to make images of fairies showing up in modern settings. This one was one of the larger sugar-lift etchings I made on this theme at about 11" x 14". 2003 maybe?

[leaflessart]

Sorry for the multiple posting the Tumblr so is messing with me 😑

Amyway here's all of 30 days of inktober/printober!!

[brettgrunig]

Another sugar-lift pixie print. I think this was the first one on this subject I made. Tennis ball recovery from roof gutter.

[brettgrunig]

My MFA show in involved varying amounts of hand working for each print. Some, like the circle trees, involved small touches like added highlights or color washes. Others involved printing on a much larger paper and drawing full images outside the print area.

[brettgrunig]

In grad school I started making prints that were series of images on single matrices. This was a 2 color litho. Lots of posts and tethers, apparently.

[brettgrunig]

Once I bought my first press, I was able to start making prints in my home studio. These were some of the first etchings, made for exchanges. They are both small, around 4" on their longest sides. I had fun using bagged rosin. That lumpy Goya texture has it's uses.

[brettgrunig]

One of the reasons I like printmaking so much is the ability to preserver earlier states of images. In this case, I like the richness of the finished, darker plate, but there is a lot to be said for the details and textures in the earlier state proof.

[brettgrunig]

This is a plate I took in for a session of figure drawing, probably around 2001 or 2002.