{"id":1136,"date":"2012-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jorj.org:4433\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2012-04-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T00:00:00","slug":"MonkE","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"MonkE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MonkE\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is probably my busiest art-related year ever. A number of things have fallen in to place, all at the same time. I’m a little saddened that it’s taken me further away from posting regularly, but on the other hand, it means that I have work like this that I can post when I have the chance.<\/p>\n

Meet Monk E. Burnswell, of Frank’s Kitchens<\/a>. I’ve accidentally found myself working with these great folks, as part of one of my “I want to do this someday” projects – photographing a build for the Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby.<\/a><\/p>\n

This is both the largest and most successful of my gum prints to date – a 16″x10.5″ print, digitally composited from five distinct shots (both film and digital originals). I took many risks on this print, and it paid off.<\/p>\n

First: this is printed on a half sheet of Stonehenge Rising White. Until this point, my largest gum print was a quarter sheet.<\/p>\n

Second: I usually forego with the sizing, or cheat with acrylic\/PVA sizing. Knowing that some day I’d want to “do gum right,” I sized a few full sheets of Stonehenge (white and warm white) last summer – multiple hits of gelatin, hardened with gluteraldehyde. And then they sat around for about 10 months, suriving the “great dimroom flood” last year. (Well, all but the one on top.)<\/p>\n

Third: I winged it. I almost always studiously measure everything. This time, there was a lot of “yeah, that looks good” that went in to the printing. I changed gum in mid-print (ran out of higher-quality Windsor & Newton gum, had some Photo Formulary lower-grade opaque stuff). I changed pigments mid-print (ran out of Sennelier C\/M\/Y, switched to Schmincke Horadam).<\/p>\n

I took some reasonable precautions, though – I printed two copies simultaneously, this one (which was to be the “beater” test image) and a slightly larger one (the sheets of warm white are a few inches larger). The larger image has problems in the dark gum areas that I don’t like as much. Go figure; the test image became the final print.<\/p>\n

So, there you go. More in the pipeline. At least these only take weeks<\/b> and not months<\/b> like the casein\/glass prints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is probably my busiest art-related year ever. A number of things have fallen in to place, all at the same time. I’m a little saddened that it’s taken me further away from posting regularly, but on the other hand, it means that I have work like this that I can post when I have the chance.<\/p>\n

Meet Monk E. Burnswell, of Frank’s Kitchens<\/a>. I’ve accidentally found myself working with these great folks, as part of one of my “I want to do this so …[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,66,51],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-altprocess","tag-gum","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}