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10.13.2010

bing, bang, boom...

Often, when a print is 'finished' I must put it away and not look at it for a few days, (or a week or several weeks). Most of the time the finished work doesn't match my 'vision', (whatever that means) and I'm left with a tinge of disappointment. In all honesty, I can name probably three pieces that, upon completion, one could have heard me shout, "viola!" This print was not one of them. It was put away for a few days and glanced at occasionally while working on a new project, but I have now come to a place where I can accept it for the print that it is. There are things I like about it, and other things I would do differently, but isn't that true with just about everything in life?

Spring Fever 1 - procrastination & Spring Fever 2, concentration

As of late I have turned my attention to bookmaking and am in the home stretch of making an accordion book of prints from blocks carved several years ago. I like making books in that it's a nice combination of creative abandon and precise technical skills, (not that all my angles are right angles, mind you). Whenever I finish a book and everything lines up and it looks pretty-okay, I feel as though something magical has happened. Here's a spread of two pages:

sink or swim - detail

Sadly, my sketchbook has been neglected, (she said shamefully, followed with a promise to rectify that situation straight away). Here's something from previous pages:


Floating Waitress
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7 comments:

  1. sushisistah10/17/2010 11:35 AM

    I think that you put out more work than you give yourself credit for. As for your work, I find it delightfully whimsical yet with a veil of mysteriousnous. The feeling I get is not unlike when I look at pictures or films of gypsies in Normandy. I have always been curious about the gypsy tribes and your subjects with their dark hair and eyes and strange activities makes me peer at them and wonder.

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  2. Anonymous10/17/2010 12:43 PM

    "Floating Waitress" was my AIM name for a long time. It was born from a misheard lyric from Peter Schilling's Major Tom.

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  3. betsy best-spadaro10/17/2010 8:13 PM

    thank you toni!
    and ms. anonymous, i want to steal your AIM name and call it my own. xo

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  4. Annie B10/27/2010 9:45 AM

    I like the combination of flat and not-flat in your Spring Fever print. I'm especially fond of the scratchy marks in the chairs that reveal the under-colors. Now that I've seen it I can't guarantee that I won't copy you in some future print :)

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  5. betsy best-spadaro10/27/2010 9:48 AM

    hi annie! don't tell anyone, but i copied that from karen kunc! xo

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  6. Anonymous2/27/2011 11:05 PM

    WAIT WAIT WAIT, "Floating Waitress" was ABBY's aim name and it was born from the same confusion. Did she make that comment? Too weird.

    This is your other daughter. I creep your blog occasionally.

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  7. betsy best-spadaro2/28/2011 2:23 PM

    dear other daughter, you and your sister should talk more. xo

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