Paper making

Any and all who are interested in paper and paper making should visit this site:

http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/bpg/annual/v15/bp15-21.html

It has all kinds of good information about the history of papermaking and how our technical advancements have impacted the end product (pretty much for the worse)

Oh yeah for any paper makers who might read this, if you want to make a paper you can actually write on with pencil try adding chalk into the pulp mix.

Michelangelo

We've also been discussing Michelangelo in Aesthetics, and he's been giving us some interesting information. One trivia fact that Michelangelo was present and watching the unearthing of the Farnese Bull, which is a Roman copy of a massive, carved from a single block, Hellenistic sculpture. This sculpture is evidently a compositional marvel because it looks good from any angle. Also we have been discussing how he combined the restfullness of classicism with the turbulence of Hellenistic art. Wolflin when doing a formal analysis of the Sistine Chapel was the first to notice that all of figures have restful contours on one side, and then are turbulent on the other.

Mavericks and Miscreants of Art History

Caravaggio one of the greatest artists in history was also a bit of a miscreant. Reportedly when he mysteriously appeared in Rome he was "naked and extremely needy." Thanks to his skill as painter he was quickly able to gain work as a successful artist. Unfortunately the man liked to fight, and ended up accidently killing someone. Not even his painting could save him then, and he had to flee Rome. He went to Naples for awhile and then bounced over to Malta where he was inducted in as a knight of Malta. Yet again he got in trouble for fighting, this time he injured another knight, and was kicked out of the oder for being "a foul and rotten member." He ended up returning to Naples convinced that people were pursuing him, and he wasn't wrong about that. An attempt was made on his life, and for awhile people believed him to be dead until he opted to reveal himself; his face had been horribly disfigured. Friends he had in Rome were able to procure a pardon for him from the pope, but he died of a fever in 1610 en route to Rome.

Color litho

This one was destined for having color from the start, instead of using a litho pencil I drew this using a green prismacolor pencil. It was actually a pretty stable etch. The whole thing was done using only one stone.

2 Lithos one drawing

For whatever reason lithography has been feeling really good to me right now. On this one after finishing with printing it I started to grinding, but stopped after a couple passes of the levigator because the image was being modified in a rather beautiful way, so I stopped and etched it. It pretty much worked.