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Dulltown, UK: Today's lost plectrum is the one which was eventually found in a tiny pocket in the Turin Shroud.
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Well, it looks like I do, or have done, two slightly different kinds of decalcomania.
The most recent ones are just a bit of rapid and rather random messing about with the printing ink left on the glass plate after I've been doing lino printing, but the earlier ones I did a while ago, are a little bit more thought out, and even possibly planned.
Yes, when the print is dried out, I add small pale things with a hard pencil, things like shadows under things, that, might need shadows, under them - to increase the feeling of depth in the work.
Of course, these prints are pretty quick to do; slapping the acrylic around on a glass surface, and scraping, poking, and blobbing, and being carefree, making mad shapes - but if you want to add all the pencil stuff later on, that can take a while.
Anyway, here's one of these earlier ones (from 2010 - doesn't time fly?) to look at, dear reader.
Decalcomania monoprint. 2010. Black acrylic paint and pencil, on paper, about 16" x 12".
Maybe it's a pyramid? Or, maybe it isn't?
A pyramid, or just some pretty rough, messy, geometry?
Oh, and note how the pencil shading at the bottom makes the thing look so much heavier. Perhaps it is sitting on sand, like a real P?
The internal squiggly stuff looks nice and fresh, doesn't it? Rapid random movements in the paint with a sharp implement - but I really like the patterns created, the ones near the top, where the paper has been pressed onto, and then pulled off, some round blobs - love those naturally occurring detailed, leaf-like, shapes!
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