But first...
Dulltown, UK: Today's very silly sounding word is, dollops.
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Yes, a few days ago, I showed you, my dear reader, a photograph of a nice old copy of Alice in Wonderland with a scratty rough drawing laid across its cover; the drawing was a design for a set of lino prints. Please click here.
Well, a small edition of prints was done - oh, and it's always been a bit of a question. The question being, how many prints should I bother doing? It's a very boring business doing lots of identical prints!
Proper printmakers, popular ones, famous ones, ones with people queuing up, and fighting each other outside their studios to buy the things, might do, or have somebody else to knock out, even hundreds of the things to sell all at high prices!
No, no, that's not my style at all.
I usually do one artist's proof, to keep separately, and about nine or ten prints to initial and number. The great thing is that once they are dried out, and being on very thin Japanese paper, they take up very storage space. That's good!
An edition of nine or ten sounds about right, less than that would, well, make them hardly worth doing at all. Ten is a good number.
Alright, let's have a look at the print!
Lino Print. 2021. Oil-based ink on Japanese paper, about A4 in size.
'Dave...'
'Yes'?
'Those white circles...'
'What about them'?
'Well, why is one of them smaller than the others'?
'It's due to the stratification of the rocks.'
'The stratification'?
'Hm... Ancient sedimentary layers... The mountain is hollow...'
'I see... Why is the sun in a black box'?'
'Two reasons, 1) the sun being white, it wouldn't show up on the white paper, and 2) the climber...'
'The climber...'?
'Yes, the climber, likes the sun that way. When you are climbing you need everything under control, you know, like having the sun, in a box...'
'I see... I hear, that you don't think much of climbing, Dave.'
'Where did you hear that'?
'I can't recall...'
'Many, many, years ago ancient people must have looked at hills and mountains, and wondered what they were for, and if there was something 'special' up on the top of them...'
'Special, Dave? What? Like a good view of the countryside'?
'No, special, in that it is extremely difficult, to get to...'
'Alright...'
'So, somebody decided to climb up one, to have a look.'
'And...'
'And, there was nothing there, disappointingly, it was just more rocks.'
'What happened next.'
'Well, although, he told everybody there was nothing there worth going up for, all the strapping pushy blokes and lasses, wanted to go up, to make sure, so they could later on brag about it, about how difficult it all was, and sometimes they'd fall off, and didn't come back...'
'Strapping and pushy people - show offs'?
'Yes... There's no real need for it.'
'I see...'
'I was thinking of calling this print, stupidity...'
'Right ho...'
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