the folly

art blog of @todayiwrotenothing

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The context here is dungeons and dragons. Made in procreate.

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Latest batch of prints. A5 sketchbook, mini gel plate, acrylic paint. Gel prints from pages of Vogue and New Scientist, old textbooks, cardboard scraps, and a leaflet from my GPS waiting room about menopause. Text cut from a newspaper, religious junk mail, an old thesaurus, and various magazines.

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I have been slacking terribly on my penpal duties and haven't written a single letter to @supervillainny this year so I painted this for her as an apology.

And I've literally just noticed that I forgot the lines down the centre of the leaves fuuuuck anyway ODDISH ONNA SKULL

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FURTHER GEL PLATE PRINTING ADVENTURES. Here, have a heptaptych of monoprints based on the diatonic modes. Well, I made six of them and then decided on the music theory theme, then made a seventh and added the text. The text looked better beforebi added a load of shit to it, but I can't ctrl-z acrylic paint. I need to channel my inner Ed Ruscha and develop my text style.

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So I'm still not getting the results I want with gel plate printing, but it does take a while to get a feel for the right amount of paint and timing/pressure with the source images. Also, turns out that black and white printouts from colour laser printers work much better than printouts from monochrome laser printers, but the colour ones are wayyyy more expensive. For magazines, Vogue works the best but I'm just not particularly interested in making prints of random models.

I mean, you can get interesting images, but who is this? Who is this person whose face has ended up in my art? I forgot to pay attention to the model credit on the page. That feels a bit weird, but it's fine for practice prints in the sketchbook.

I'm been tweaking source images in procreate for printing but I think I'll try photoshop to get more control over the midtones because those are the unpredictable areas. Maybe posterised HQ pics would work better. Anyway here's a couple of Tom Zane prints.

(First one used the decidedly not HQ divers isle photo from cynthia weaver's room, taken from the alan wake wiki, second one mashed up a couple of @amiracleilluminated 's screenshots.)

Amsterdam paints work better than others I've tried, but the black just isn't very punchy. I could try culture hustle's black 2.0 but as it stains everything it touches I'm not sure I want to cover my gel plate with it.

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mixed media squares (and the occasional rectangle) in my sketchbook. pinterest shows me this kind of thing a lot, addn I like it as a low-pressure zone-out no-wrong-way-to-do-it have-fun exercise. I've merged some of the little collages together in procreate with the intention of painting the abstract images on canvas.

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String hot-glued to a canvas, covered in tissue paper, and painted.

Recently I've been watching an artist on YouTube (Sergio Aranda) who is fantastic at evoking rust and decay in his heavily textured paintings, and I wanted to try something in a similar vein.

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Yeah here’s a good introduction to my art, a jam-faced hell-baby biscuit. Hashtag implied vore.