Rocket Barrette

It will be secured to a French made barrette mechanism.

It is 4" end to end.

It is hand chased/repoussed aluminum.

It is signed and dated.

It is one of a kind.

It is really wonderful!

I wish I had long hair.

COLLAGRAPHY!

These are not etchings...they are collagraphs.

SO excited!

Etching press squared up and working great!

These ARE the first proofs from the press in the new studio...

and with NEW blankets!

No, not the best photos, but they'd have to dry before flattening...

and I just didn't want to wait.

SO good to see this!

More later! 
 This next one...
I couldn't stop myself. 
I was just messing around....experimenting.

I should have known better.
I grabbed a too thin aluminum plate that was lumpy...
Bent, not straight...yes, lumpy.
I'll work to get a good print of it...
and never, ever use a lumpy, bent plate again!!

Rockets....1st state.

Linda Kelen's switch wallplates

....and I'm just getting started!
(more about these later...)

watercolor, chasing/repousse in progress

Haven't posted in a long time...
this is some of what I've been up to.

(22"x30" watercolor...WakeMaker)

There'll be better photos when they are completed.

(various incompleted small poundings)

I never looked at a watercolor with the poundings like this....they feel good together...guess it does make sense...same mind....same world...so these must be some of the remnants of the world I'm always arting...like an historian collecting things from the places he goes to document.

Rocket...Stars and Saturn.....

the first of more.....

(Stars are 4 1/2", 5", 3 1/2")...........(Saturn is 10" wide)

Rocket size coming...I forgot to measure it...

(one group picture still coming)