Eurides Gómez.
Boar Hunt.
The number of steady participants is much stronger this time around compared to 2013. There were ten people again all day today. The artists really enjoy their work and they feel good about their prints. One of my continued suggestions for them is to start using a greater variety of tools, so the mark making will become more varied. I also encourage the artists not to carve too much away right away, but rather to test-print and to rework the plate after. Several are doing just that, but a repeated frustration (on behalf of me as well as the artists) is the lack of solid blacks in the final piece. Overall the artists have made good progress from the first test plates. They are all comfortable with the handling of the tools and with no other students do I ever see such profound dedication to the whole task and process.
Above is a piece by Eurides Gómez. He participated last time also, but he's been quite ill in the meantime and we weren't even sure he would be able to participate. He insisted he was well enough to come, but his eyesight has suffered due to his illness and he's struggling with the tools. His work is rustic, but quite beautifully composed and full of life nonetheless (see boar hunt above).
To share a bit about the process see images below. Eurides is carving a plate, i.e. whatever he carves into the plate will remain white while the surface of the plate gets rolled up with ink. After that the ink gets transferred through pressure onto paper by rubbing the back of the paper with a spoon.
Eurides carving a plate.
Inking and printing station.
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