Doily Prints

I may have mentioned this but I love the idea of trying to reinvent objects with previous memories to them. i.e. my Monopoly ring series. Recently my mom handed me these old rubber doilies that my great-grandmother had under a glass tabletop knowing that I would find some use for them, which I of course did.

I call these 'prints' only because I have no other idea how to identify them. I created some of them much like one would when they make a relief print (painting on top of the doily and pressing down but some others I created in a much different way by filling in the in-between spaces with paint.  

It's still very much experimental. Although it is still the same doily how I apply the paint make each look completely different. Yet none of them are prefect, not all of the paint sticks to the paper, and sometimes it still dries too fast, so there are still kinks, but it's interesting how quickly it came to me.

Printmaking: Waterless Lithography

My original idea for this project was to work with the vivid memories I have of one of my favorite books from my childhood, especially with the books the BFG by Roald Dahl and the Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews.

However as the project involved these memories, especially those I have the Giants in, began to morph into some pressure I felt with school at the time.

The finial drawings, visualizing the pressure I was feeling with my art : 

The finial project once printed, using the Waterless Lithography printmaking process, which out of the ones we used during the semester this was my favorite: