litography

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this year my first intention was to take a course in drawing, but mostly because of scheduled matters I ended in an offset course and this half of the year in a litography one, and I have to say that I´m realling enjoying it! . Today I was trying to draw this into a caliza stone from Baviera with a grease pencil! (sure you already know some of them! )

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can we see the print por favor?
the forms are yours and we wanna seeeee

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por supuesto, jimbo!! : you also can see the process, which was very funny (there was a problem with asphalt paint and hot air that caused the image to vanish a little according to my teachers: you can see the showing the process with my stone!). One of them during all the course joke about my "mmm... well, it doesn´t matter, it´s ok anyway" saying "wow... yeah... let´s incorporate the mistake to the obra... you are ready to join the Bellas Artes university" , so this time I laughed a lot when they couldn´t take off the paint that they previosly put on the stone... Anyway, I liked the prints we got, and for what I saw with the stones of my compañeros I doubt the more or less fidelity of the prints were only because the hot/cold air factor. For the next work we are not going to use the asphalt paint, we´ll see what happen!

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I also discovered I liked a lot the trementina smell!!!



asphalt paint in action!



asphalt paint not wanting to desaparecer!

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part of the printing process



photos of some of the "quién sabe..?"prints

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next!: I used this time brushes and plumas, first time I used those for painting in a stone!!!!!! really dizzy: it took me only a few minutes, not idea of what I was painting/drawing but initially I was inspired in a drawing I saw more than ten years ago in a Mc Kenna book!! maybe I will call it "zona de promesas", I had that song all the time in my head last wednesday!

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(& gracias for all the photos to Ernesto, a taller-compañero that took all of them except the prints ones! )