Gocco Prints - 1

I'm very happy with my Gocco machine! I'll have prints of my first design available at Lunaria since these coordinate with the paintings I did for my show with KC.

This photo is of the first steps I took when printing. I taped around the edges of the paper and masked areas that I wanted to print in the last steps. (These are circles cut with a hole punch out of sticky notes, so they stuck to the paper by themselves.) You can also see the samples I made of the Gocco inks on the papers propped up in the background.

These papers have had the first printing and are drying on the window sill. My office/studio is pretty small, so every space is used when I'm working on a big project. I was glad I took the time to apply tape for a clean edge since the ink bled out of the size I intended. You can see the punched circles lifted up a little and were an effective mask of the ink. The little white circles were part of the printed design.

The next layer was of a line design printed in blue ink. These were inspired by Rebecca Wild's class I took earlier in the summer and I also used in some of the paintings for the show.

This is a photo of the final image (5" x 7"). The last two layers I printed were the orange circles and then the blue marks over the circles. It's called Blue Gestures and there's a limited edition of 15. I also made one artist's proof.

I was so excited by this process and outcome that I've planned several more designs. Now I just need time.

Comments

[Julie K in Taiwan]

I *love* the blue and orange one. what I've seen you do has been the most inspiring of the gocco images I've viewed online. Guess I'll put a gocco on my list of things to save up for. I just got a wacom bamboo tablet. Been playing around with that, but haven't had much time recently.

[Heather T.]

So *very* cool!!! I'm glad you're enjoying the process...

[Brenda]

Thanks, Julie! That Bamboo Tablet looks like a cool tool. Let me know what you do with it.