Continued

 

Spent the long weekend printing litho and listening to the Rolling Stones

It has been a painful and frustrating few months trying to make work so it is a relief to finally feel like there is some forward motion in the studio. To be continued...


Continued
lithograph on vintage endpapers
5.75 x 9" 
unique edition

copyright Kate Castelli 2012

Where I've been spending my time (part I)

The print shop and litho stones

Grad school is wonderful, and frustrating, and exhausting all at the same time. I have been spending 12-14 hours a day in the studio several days a week. I'm very much in the experimental and exploratory stages of work-- nothing is solid or certain. I have to constantly remind myself to play right now, and worry about the why later.

I've been spending a lot of my time in the print shop, and most specifically doing lithography in depth for the first time. I always feel at home in the shop-- the smell of the ink, the weight of the paper, the methodical process, and the thrill of pulling a print off the plate. 

(I have several prints in the works that I'll share soon...)