Walking Bones take me far!

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Bones: the Spill

Bones: the Spill

This project has taken me a long way! And maybe more to come…  I am using (amusing?) four lino cut plates, then working them in different directions. No simple print has worked alone, but I am Mixed Media therefore I have fun… I really enjoy the working back into a piece, altering it, improving it, trying NOT to destroy it, and transforming it until it really satisfies me! This one is not quite done, but it is getting there. It is fourth full size work from this set that is complete, or almost so. Oh, and I love a digital spin-off from one of them so that makes five!

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Printing Walking Bones, a set of four plates

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This is not going as planned, but no surprise there 🙂 Consistent inking is a problem, and I am sure there is some small variations in the thickness of my four plates; in fact two plates have thicker edges.At this point I am not sure I like anything about these prints, but things will change!

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Just wishing that …

P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell Posted on by

Yesterday and today I am regretful, wishing that I had signed up for a Seattle TK “30 Day Art Challenge. For this challenge the artist enrolls, pays, and receives 30 8″x10” canvas boards which must be completed & returned in 30 days to be exhibited at December ArtWalk.

I decided not to enter this challenge due to my current stress level, and current commitments to family and friends. But on another level, I feel so ready for this challenge. I could do it! And it would be fun, exciting, etc.

Realistically meeting this challenge would require a time commitment that I do not want to make just now. I am too enmeshed in other things, some (but not all) of my own choosing, of course. Unfortunately some of these things are painful, and it is difficult not to be resentful.

I don’t need more stress in my life at the moment, and I fear that my other commitments would turn a fun challenge into painful stress! Perhaps next year I will be able to take the plunge with fewer conflicts, but of course the fear is that there will always be other commitments and time conflicts!

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