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Dulltown, UK: Today's expletive is, bloody!
A 19th c. very English expletive, which travelled happily to many English-speaking countries around the world, especially Australia - except of course the USA, where it wasn't adopted, and it went down as just a cute, very British, oddity.
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Yes, I called this post, calculation and randomness.
Just a catchy title, but it's about those very quick monoprints that I do when cleaning up after a session of lino print printing - just to use up the bloody excess ink!
Calculation:
Well, you have to think about it a little bit before you start messing. First, how about the bloody ink on the bloody glass plate? Do you roll the bloody stuff about a bit, or just use, for the background of the print, the marks and patches that have already arranged themselves on the rolling surface? Me, I tend to give the bloody stuff a good rolling over, with my bloody roller. It provides a nice speckled grey on the print, not really a black, and is certainly not white.
Now, perhaps one should quickly consider, and calculate, what to do on your prepared surface. I like to use a small bloody palette knife - really, just because it is handy. It's good for scraping across the bloody inked surface - it naturally makes remarkable marks - yes, remarkable marks.
Randomness:
Yes, I know you are trying to do something creative with the knife, but it is always a surprise when you later peel off the paper, and look what you have done. Hence, the bloody randomness.
Let's have a look at another one of mine:
Monoprint. 2022. Oil-based ink on Japanese paper, about A4 in size.
See, dear reader, the background was well-rolled out - note the darkness! The random and speckled effect is probably caused by bits of bloody muck mixed in with the bloody ink on the bloody glass.
After the rolling, those three big horizontal sweeps of the knife were done, the first one at the bottom - see how the upper ones cut into the lower ones, as if they are actually sitting on top - which of course, they are not.
Then, some vertical, thinner, more twitchy stripes, using a different part of the knife blade. They definitely look to be well in front of the horizontal ones, don't they? Just look at them jump and swirl. The faster you do these, the better!
I call these prints, my 'twelve seconds artworks', because that's about how long the things take to do. Quick eh? People seem to prefer them to my carefully done, time-consuming, proper prints - which, really is, a bit bloody annoying!
But you see, that's nature, and serendipity for you!
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