Doing a warmer #monoprint of the first bus #gelliprint - the line work came up cleaner this time.
I worked a dry brush over the line art to make it softer and more painterly in the windows, knocked out a silhouette in the back to represent me, and filled the interior of windows with a warm orange gradient, starting in the back. That’s where my friends and I used to sit.
I put together various cool grays over the bus panels, and then focused on brown grays adjacent to the bus.
And a white and blue sky above.
It’s strange trying to imagine it backwards.
At the end I blocked out opposites, making a mustard green to back the sky and clouds, taking the bare tube cad orange to fill in any bus gaps, and blue for the tire wells and the asphalt.
The original painting was slightly in from the margins, so the end colors should pop a frame around the margins, like a thick outline.
Everything glued to the paper with a warm crimson 50 percent gray, since whites tend to show poorly colored if there is cracking / early peel.
Sprayed the Stonehenge white paper with water earlier but got it from the back again before piling books on top.
#printmaking
#painting
I worked a dry brush over the line art to make it softer and more painterly in the windows, knocked out a silhouette in the back to represent me, and filled the interior of windows with a warm orange gradient, starting in the back. That’s where my friends and I used to sit.
I put together various cool grays over the bus panels, and then focused on brown grays adjacent to the bus.
And a white and blue sky above.
It’s strange trying to imagine it backwards.
At the end I blocked out opposites, making a mustard green to back the sky and clouds, taking the bare tube cad orange to fill in any bus gaps, and blue for the tire wells and the asphalt.
The original painting was slightly in from the margins, so the end colors should pop a frame around the margins, like a thick outline.
Everything glued to the paper with a warm crimson 50 percent gray, since whites tend to show poorly colored if there is cracking / early peel.
Sprayed the Stonehenge white paper with water earlier but got it from the back again before piling books on top.
#printmaking
#painting
celebration month)! 
