Lenore Thomas was the shit! I really appreciated her playfulness throughout the demo with her emphasis on process and experimentation. Not letting any piece of the expensive plate or paper go to waste is something all college students/artists can appreciate. I was flattered when she asked me to help ink her plates up; therefore I was able to feel the rectangular aquatinted plates and admire her color choices. The thought of white ink has never occurred to me as something visually stimulating, especially not as a base layer. Watching the white turn to a delicate dirty gray really surprised me and has inspired me to try this with my own plates (also rolling white overtop before putting it through the press).
Lenore gave me a lot of pointers on graduate schools, which at this point in my life I literally cannot get enough information about! The use of the aquatinted plates, repeated several times with basic shades of pink and white is something I am beginning to understand when going to graduate school. Not saying that everyone is to work with pink and white "bricks", but the slowing down and really taking time to work intuitively and cohesively with a common concept, subject, and images is portrayed in the work she is revisiting from her graduate days.
The easy going nature of the demo and lecture allowed myself, and I'm sure many others, to feel comfortable through her approachable demeanor and dialogue. She wasn't an art snob coming to brag about herself, she was coming to print and hopefully share some inspirations with students and peers on why printmaking is awesome! Yet still completely crediting and noting the other mediums she uses to achieve her desired effects.
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