Art Post: Stupid Canadian Wolf Bird (Gavia immer)

[radiantfracture]

Because when I make fan art, I like it to be as obscure as possible

Sure, it looks like a linocut of a loon but really it's a symbol of queer hockey transcendence



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[ETA: I want to use some of the shimmering ink* to create the iridescent effect of the black feathers and to do the red eye -- painting ink on overtop of the print didn't do what I wanted, so maybe painting it right onto the printing block somehow?]

* specifically, Octopus Fluids' Witch, pine green with purple sheen

Comments

[radiantfracture]

Ha, I don't know anything about hockey either, except what I got in the water by growing up in Canada. I just latched on hard to a catch phrase in the show.

I feel like you will have worked this out well before me: a nice thing about printmaking vs. painting is that duplication is so much easier. If I make a painting, I have one (1) painting, and if I want prints I need a special scanner, etc. But a linocut just needs more ink.

Cool.

It fulfills my weird and often unproductive compulsion to do everything myself and never ask for help.