So this weekend featured the yearly Artist Alley, where we students set up booths to sell our pathetic wares for pennies. I was dying to enter last year but missed the deadline, so this year I decided to go all-out with a cat-poopin extravaganza! I ended up making about $100, mostly selling buttons and bookmarks and magnets, though I was also selling dirt-cheap prints. My leftovers will be for sale as well, through my web site and Facebook. My site is in desperate need of a revision– it’s almost time for the “Shop” section!

Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure of my booth and such. My lovely boyfriend took them. Woooooooooooooooooooooooo!

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See that black hair? That’s really just a combination of about 543,000 lines.

This quarter I have revamped a lot of my old work, because there are a ton of old ideas I like but which are a bit outdated technique-wise. So I decided to use my ancient drawing of a sphinx “self-portrait” for my printmaking class. This time we did dry point intaglio, which was great for convincing me I do not want to ever be a printmaker.

First we ruined our wrists carving line after line into a sheet of Plexiglas, then we slathered the whole thing with ink, mashed it in for about 10 minutes, and spent 20 minutes rubbing all the ink off that we just mashed in. Then we took a sheet of paper which had been soaking for the last day, and pressed the ink onto it using a buttload of pressure. This doesn’t sound too bad, but doing it 12 times gets rather time-consuming. Then there is the joy you feel after pulling a print and realizing you didn’t rub quite enough ink off on one corner, making the whole thing worthless as they are supposed to be exactly the same.

In the end though I really love how my sphinx came out. Though it was freaking hard to print, it was a lot faster than hand-drawing 12 of the same image! And now I can give all the rejected prints to family and friends as Christmas presents. Oh joy.