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