lithography on aluminium, mannequin and koi

been a while since i updated... guess the 'each week' plan hasnt worked out already! to bad...
but i will be sharing some prints i made last year in my exchange period in Japan.

Well, here are two aluminum plates which i made in Japan last year. They're lithographs but not on stone, funny heh.
it was so nice to be in Japan and to be able to totally make what i wanted to. Truth is, in Holland, in school, i was forced to work in a certain way. Just like on any art school i guess, to bad.



Here i totally went crazy with my obsession with mannequins.
i had been drawing them for some time before going to Japan and this was the last piece i've made up until now using the many mannequin women i designed in my sketchbooks.

the teachers were surprised by the outcome (this goes for me as well actually) and they wanted to include it in their example collection. I felt so honored! so now, this print is included in the collection of the Musashino Art School in Tokyo.



Here the koi fish are back!
i used a koi pattern i saw in the art of a manga which name i sadly have forgotten already, but the koi stayed in my head. I made three drawings of this before deciding it was good enough to be a lithography since i only had 2 plates to work on.


Fun fact is, this is the one i made first before i ended up making the mannequins into lithography.

I had been making lithographs on stone before, but they never really came out right. These were a surprise for me! i hope to make more stone lithographs in the future, but first i will focus more on woodblock print.

all the best,

Melissa

Fish, plans and law

Well... I have some fishy prints here. I really like fish =D to eat and to make prints off that is. This is one of my favorite small prints I made for my /steampunk series that I'm planning to make. This is a special print for me. My teachter didn't like it at all! He said it was to comicbook-like, like a lot of the things I make. But I wanted to include it in my latest group exhibition (that, sadly, just ended. I've collected my remaining prings just now) in the Faculty of Law in Leiden. Funny is that this small print cought the attention of multiple people! Guess more people thought it was cute, just like myself.



What it is with fish? I don't really know. When in Japan I found out I was sort of interested in Koi. I could stare at them for hours, pretty sad ne!
But, they are interesting when looking at the designs they come in! But, the goldfish and Koi are my favorits at the moment, so more fishy prints can be expected!

The plans for next weeks are combined with law. Me and some of my academy collegues are currently working on this project to combine law with art. We have some law related texts and it's up to us to provide these texts with suiting prints. Very interesting since some of the tests are pretty abstract! I've been working on one that I'm planning into making into an etching pretty soon, hopefully next week.

Apart from that, I'm having fun making fishy prints =D

Cheers!

Melissa

First entry, some old works and a warm welcom

Hello and welcome on my personal art blog.
Here you will find the latest updates of my printing works.

As this is the first entry, I would like to present some older works.

These are three of my works from two different periods.

The first is one of my etchings from the series "Lamia" I made during my last year in the academie. After that year, I went to Japan and learned a new technique: woodcut. I fell in love with it. The second image is my first woodcut I ever made.















The third image is a mezzotint, also made in Japan, which took a lot of time and effort to complete










I hope to show you new work soon!

regards,

Melissa