A little temporary diversion.
I've been threatening for years to do a series of prints based on my favorite Italian road signs inspired by my forced attendance at Italian driving school. (There's an oxymoron for you). ((Forced due to residency requirements not any traffic infringements)).
Two small blocks of Beech (Faggio). These are leftover cuts of one of my beetle blocks and are about 4"x 9" in size.
A little too short to faithfully represent the actual road sign this is inspired by.
While not actually one of my favorite signs it will do as a test print.
I wanted to see if my locally-sourced, Japanese paper (unsized) would work--it didn't.
And whether I could get a decent opaque white printed on tan paper....fair but not convincing. I'll need to do multiple impressions to get the deep blue and the opaque sparkly white I want. Third, it will give me a chance to print with mica powder now that I found a local source of mica today (the ever-helpful folks at Zecchi Fine Arts) so I can now forge ahead once I finish cleaning up the blocks.
Not worth showing the results this round as the blocks are still more interesting than the prints.
Need to clean out the hollow areas--they seemed deeper before washing off my hanshita/drawing paper.
nice! I'm very curious about the print.
ReplyDeletewhile reading your post I immediately thought about this sign:
http://milocca.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/attraversamento-ranerospi-possibilita-di-strada-viscida1.jpg
maybe you already knew about it but I wanted to be sure you saw it!
I live near a park and we have lot of those very useful signs expecially in spring when toads try to kill themselves crossing roads : )
Yes, I know that sign. We have a similar one in Florida for alligators! And one in Central California for tarantulas.
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