Seems I have been very quiet on my blog. Thank you for those of you who have visited and even left comments wondering how I am doing. I have been busy...as you will see.
This is a print from a linocut of a rooster that I did last week. I thought it was funny that after I had finished my two ATC for the month...I am trading within a group... I opened my mail from them. One of the women wrote: "Faces are okay but they should look different. Are you doing any women? Why not?"
Well as you can see I did some different kinds of faces...but neither one was a woman. Why am I doing male faces? I like them. Why don't I do women...they are suppose to be soft and pretty and I don't want to do soft and pretty...hard and coarse from work and worry is what I enjoy capturing in faces. Also I don't think I have figured out how to do faces well enough...so the more I do the better I think I will get.
My daughter, Catherine, actually turned me on to doing faces. She drew faces for a whole year. Mostly just girls...or anemia ..which to me look unisex. One day, a couple years ago, Catherine wanted to do a hand carved stamp. She drew a picture of a face. I told her that it would never look like a face, it is just to hard to carve and that she should start with something easier. Like a red head she never let that kind of talk stop her.
Now for an eleven year old I was pretty impressed with these images. So I thought I would try to do some faces. I was pretty surprised how well mine turned out...even in the drawing stage because I didn't normally draw faces....so that is how it all began. Here are a couple of linocut of women that I did a while back.
The one on the right, her hat is shading part of her face. I may have to try to do women again...but you can see the old and the young. Maybe the young is looking into the face herself old....maybe this is why I like to do men I can distance myself from the fact I am aging.
One of the things I like to do is line up all the images that I printed and look at them like a Andy Warhol painting. I am not a consistent printer. Isaac is a better printer than I am and he didn't want to help me because I want him to print too many.
