{"id":1142,"date":"2011-07-26T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T17:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2017-11-17T11:33:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T16:33:43","slug":"1142","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/1142\/","title":{"rendered":"Print Class: More stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the monoprint I created last Thurs evening in class. Wasn&#8217;t expecting to work in this medium so it&#8217;s based on my mushroom studies which luckily I had with me. I left it in the print studio to dry and picked it up Fri before we went to VA. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/print\/monoprint1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/print\/monoprint1_sm.jpg\" alt=\"First Monoprint\" width=300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>First Monoprint for class<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>I tried 3 different drawings on the plexi plate and my second printing of each one showed the best texture and of the 3 this is the first and the one I like best. The others had moments but they were more about experimenting as I tried to see what else I could do. (I was also working with torn cardboard as a mark-maker and an old brush found in the studio.)\n<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for tonight&#8217;s class, I have carved a second test woodblock trying to get the organic lines I want. If I can print this tonight I can plan the next step.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/print\/woodblock2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/print\/woodblock2_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Second woodblock test.\" width=300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Second woodblock test.<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>The first test woodblock was printed by hand. I hope to print this on the press. We&#8217;ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the monoprint I created last Thurs evening in class. Wasn&#8217;t expecting to work in this medium so it&#8217;s based on my mushroom studies which luckily I had with me. I left it in the print studio to dry and picked it up Fri before we went to VA. Second woodblock test. The first&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/1142\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[213,214,383],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-printmaking","tag-monoprint","tag-woodblock","tag-printmaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4210,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/4210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}