Jonathan S. Green

mariamercer: Ephemera

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:44:57 -0230

mariamercer:

Ephemera

Malicious MovementsIntaglio 4” x 6.75”

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:19:00 -0230

Malicious Movements
Intaglio 4” x 6.75”

“She is all set for sleepless nights of measuring the...

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:15:07 -0230

“She is all set for sleepless nights of measuring the world” Matthew Hollett

A great line there

Red. cabinporn: “Little Red Treehouse” in...

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:34:36 -0230

Red.

cabinporn:

“Little Red Treehouse” in Lapland, Sweden.

Contributed by Joan Childs.

I received this last night to my surprise.This is the Corner...

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:19:00 -0230

I received this last night to my surprise.
This is the Corner Brook Achievement in Community Excellence award for emerging artist. There were some great fellow nominees in this category and the other categories. A great expression of appreciation from the region. I really appreciate getting it and thankful for everyone involved.

samantharobinsonstudio: Untitled, 2013 Watercolor, acrylic...

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:49:15 -0230

samantharobinsonstudio:

Untitled, 2013

Watercolor, acrylic and ink on canvas

http://samantharobinsonstudio.com/

Green housePetty Harbour, NewfoundlandStarting to like the...

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:48:39 -0230

Green house
Petty Harbour, Newfoundland

Starting to like the colour green more and more

Selfie at Petty Harbour, Newfoundland.

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:02:50 -0230

Selfie at Petty Harbour, Newfoundland.

Looks great. A nice size too. lsplichal: #hellobeautiful...

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:04:56 -0230

Looks great. A nice size too.

lsplichal:

#hellobeautiful #intaglio

Iceberg. Springdale junction Reminds me of a middle finger...

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:21:58 -0230

Iceberg.
Springdale junction

Reminds me of a middle finger myself

I remember taking plates home with me after my intro to etching...

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:58:42 -0230

I remember taking plates home with me after my intro to etching class. I took them home for Christmas holidays, thinking I’d work on them over the holidays. Of course, I never.
So it’s always nice to see such dedication in others.

blackheartpress:

Drypoint dedication

It’s finally some kind of spring in Helsinki, and the amazing Christian Bazant-Hegemark is back in town for a week of excessive printmaking. We started with day off, I took my students to Rastila Beach to celebrate the end of the term with a campfire and night swimming in the sea.
Christian was having none of my day off shenanigans and took some plates to the beach..

Without further ado: en plein air drypoint videography.
Oh yeah

Further reading:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk9hEpDz4ik
or 8hz higher:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThiSqefRAzY

mapsontheweb: 1934 Map of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition....

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:40:23 -0230

mapsontheweb:

1934 Map of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition. Great Penguins!

These are gorgeous. What really caught my eye is image number 5...

Wed, 08 May 2013 10:24:56 -0230

1. Leiden UB BPL 76 A, fol. 17r (closeup)

2. Leiden UB BPL 76 A, side

3. Leiden UB BPL 76 A, fols. 16v-17r

4. Leiden UB BPL 76 A, fol. 16v-17r

5. Leiden UB BPL 76 A, fol. 16v (full)

6. Leiden UB BPL 76 A, fol. 17r

7. Leiden UB BPL 76 A, fol. 18v

8. Leiden UB BPL 76 A, fol. 19r

These are gorgeous. What really caught my eye is image number 5 - looks like a scene from the nativity story. I really enjoy how the horse and the star break the pictorial frame. It really aids the composition of the piece. I know little about medieval manuscripts and art, but that seems unusual to me. Actually, it might be unusual for now even. It’s hard to get students to break that “square” frame. As a printmaker it’s rare to see amongst prints.

Over use I am sure it would become trite but here it comes over as really original, fresh. Fresh and 12 century manuscript. That’s new for me.

erikkwakkel:

Medieval eye candy

This manuscript is one of the treasures of Leiden University Library. It was made around 1200, likely in the north of England, and was used by the French king Louis IX (1214-70). Not when he was king, mind you, but as a child. As was common practice in medieval times, the Psalms were used for learning to read, and that is the reason why royal hands once held the object. These spectacular miniatures are found in front of the book. They are fit for a king to be: eye candy with a great historical past.

Pics: Leiden University Library, BPL 76 A (c. 1190). Photography: Julie Somers (pic 1-4), UB Leiden (pics 5-8).

F Work in progress - silkscreen on aluminum lithograph plate

Tue, 07 May 2013 22:32:11 -0230

Work in progress - silkscreen on aluminum lithograph plate

I like this a lot myjetpack: I have made a new letterpress...

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:06:22 -0230

I like this a lot

myjetpack:

I have made a new letterpress print.
You can order it here:
http://www.tomgauld.com/index.php?/shop/tough-times-print/

rhizomedotorg: 3D-printed Guy Debord action figures...

Tue, 07 May 2013 14:11:17 -0230

rhizomedotorg:

3D-printed Guy Debord action figures (2012). Produced by McKenzie Wark, design by Peer Hansen, with technical assistance by Rachel L.

A Cavalier History of Situationism: An Interview with McKenzie Wark

One of the premises of The Spectacle of Disintegration is that there’s the myth of the overcoming of the spectacular form in the age of the Internet, but what it does is make it microscopic and distribute it throughout the entire media sphere, so we now have micro-spectacular relations rather than one big macro one. So if you think about the old culture industry, everybody was critical of it, but at least it fucking entertained us! You would have all those flaws that Adorno spoke about, the extorted reconciliation of the ending, the equivalence of exchange values, but at least it was offered to you as something to consume. We’ve moved from the era of the culture industry to what I would call the vulture industry, which is companies like Google. I mean, in terms of culture, they don’t make shit. They just allow you to get to stuff that somebody else made. So now we have to even entertain each other. Go on, make some cat videos! So there’s a sense that on one side there’s the outsourcing of the production of the thing, and on the other what I would call the insourcing of the production of the affect. It becomes everyone’s job, but no one is to expect to get paid for it anymore. It was always a struggle if what you wanted to do was be a creative person, to make any living at all. I don’t know if that got any worse. It was always terrible. But the conditions of its terribleness change with each technical evolution. - Wark

Silkscreening. I know. What the hell

Mon, 06 May 2013 22:17:00 -0230

Silkscreening.
I know. What the hell

New print. Needs titleIntaglio 11” x 7.5”

Sat, 04 May 2013 18:43:09 -0230

New print. Needs title
Intaglio 11” x 7.5”

My brother

Sat, 04 May 2013 18:02:38 -0230

My brother

Even here, it was impossible to escapeIntaglio 15” x...

Fri, 03 May 2013 17:16:00 -0230

Even here, it was impossible to escape
Intaglio 15” x 11”

The final print and state proofs.
Printed in Printeresting Black ink from Gamblin.

For people in to process:
This was approached first through a wintergreen photocopy transfer of a photo - which was slightly imperfect. Then from there, hardgound etching and aquatint to get to the final state. Oh, and a little scrape and burnishing - who doesn’t like burnishing.

I tried to do this image back in 2010 at a residency at St. Michael’s Printshop. Initial plan was for a drypoint, but that never worked for me at the time, so it stalled and was pushed to the side. It was revitalized this year when I was trying to do a demo for the intro to intaglio class at Grenfell. I figured this would be the perfect example to show how the transfer works, and how to integrate with the rest of the techniques.

I feel this image fits with my older body of work, maybe because of the initial start and the idea/thought I am trying to convey with it.