NEED to share Theo

    this man is amazing.
    THEO JANSEN is an engineer and an artist, and creates natural sculptures that move with the wind
    i found out about this amaaaaazing artist today from LIZ, totally in awe.
    check him out, seriously
    it is WILD!

NEED to share Olivier

    OLIVIER GIRON is a graduate student who is pursuing an MFA in photography from
    the george mason university school of art
    these three photos are from his series titled mind traveler
    my documentary photo teacher pointed me towards this series because of a project
    that i am currently working on in her class and i am totally in love!
    so impressed and inspired by these three photos

perfect day for rosie.

    so why would anyone want to roll around in the mud in the rain on a cold day?

    well, no one really does

    but if you volunteer for a shoot with photographer JEWEL PEACH

    then you better be prepared for just about anything

    

    JEWEL'S special project involves a few other models and lots of

    ROSIE HARDY inspired photographs

    everyone should be very excited to see the outcome of this

    LAUREN had to wade nearly all the way into a rushing muddy river

    and sat around in puddles and balanced on bridge ledges

    and she STILL looks stuning 

    the lovely photographer and her husband who assisted her all day

    his quick reflexes kept JEWEL from sliding right into the river!

    and i still have glue on my face

    because i forgot the precious antidote

    but that's okay, because the mask was worth it.

perfect day for reduction.

    spent the entire day working on my linocut reduction print
    also known as a suicide print
    you cut a little, print a color, cut some more, print again, cut some more, etc..
    so, there isn't any going back and reprinting. it's much much much too late.
    so here are some photos of the process....

cut a border some minor details, printed grey

sharpened my tools

caved a whole lot of detail...

inked my plate

placed it on the press within my grid, and then laid my grey print down

sneaking a peak :D 

hooray! it came out GREAT!
although i still have several colors to add.

i reaaallly like some of my classmate's prints
he has a couple more runs to do still as well.

LIZ, carving away

this is her sketch, i can't wait to see what her prints look like

HANNAH'S is gooorgeous
such a great idea

her prints are coming out great so far as well.
mermaid in a tea cup :D