Probably going to be a bit absent for a week or so. Ateast I won't be starting any new art like I planned this week. Moving was INTENSE and still is. I have so much to unpack and organize, Hermes needs some TLC to get adjusted, plus I have a potential working interview soon and a school opportunity very soon! So here is another few old artworks of similar variety. All are black and white radial designs, but the first two on top were done in ink and the third one on the bottom was done with printmaking. For the pen and ink ones, only one corner was drawn in ink and then I scanned the drawings into Photoshop and rotated the design to create the symmetry. The printmaking one I made by carving a stamp and then rotating the design to create symmetry. Very similar processes for both but one was rotated digitally and the other was done on paper. All of them were done at some point in high school.
We have officially reached a viewership level that has never been obtained by another museum before! All of us at the Sacramento History Museum are in disbelief.
We would have never thought that our institution, a small nonprofit museum in Sacramento, California, could reach this many views, but we are incredibly thankful for all of those who take the time to watch our videos and for your support.
In this video, Howard letterpress printed a headline announcing “Sacramento History Museum Reaches One Billion Video Views On YouTube” while using our Washington hand press, which was manufactured in 1852!
Everyone liked the color charts I test printed for Basilisk so much, I felt compelled made a nice version! Great for anyone that has an interest in Risograph printing, historical pigments, or weird medieval marginalia.
Anyone ever done monoprinting? At least that's what my high school art teacher called this process. You roll ink on a plate like you were going to coat a stamp for print making but instead the paper goes directly on the ink and you draw on it with pencil firmly so those areas pick up the ink on the plate. The bottom image is a reverse monoprint. I made a monoprint on black ink and then place another piece of paper and rubbed it down so the areas where the ink had already been picked up by the previous drawing are blank white paper. Very interesting process overall I would definitely experiment with again.