Hand printed & hand carved linoprint. Occult/Sci-fi inspired work about exobiology.

  • FormallyKnownEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Really kool! Did you sketch it out beforehand or what was your process

    • Julien Catanese@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      thanks ! I do the research using drawings in a notebook, but they are more sketches of elements, of symbols. I create the composition in vector on Adobe Illustrator then using a transfert medium from liquitex , I transfer my printed composition onto my linoleum plate. I then engrave my plate manually. approximately 90 percent of the plaque is hollowed out.

  • Ashyr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Can you explain all the various representations? There’s a few I recognize, a few I can guess at and still more that I don’t even know where to start.

    • Julien Catanese@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      it is a mixture of abstract elements with occult/sci-fi connotations and scientific diagrams or more figurative or symbolic elements. there are elements relating to cosmology, astronomy, topography/geology. the element carbon, its simplified atomic model. a molecule of “chnops” the building blocks of life, a representation of bacterial life and various abstract elements. everything arranged in such a way as to have a homogeneous and graphically coherent egnimatic whole.

  • Ifeelya@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I really like this! The colors of the ink, paper, frame, and even the wall look great together!

    • Julien Catanese@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I really like this! The colors of the ink, paper, frame, and even the wall look great together!

      thank a lot :) the frame and the wall come from a mock up I haven’t actually framed it yet :)

  • ink@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    Awesome! I’ve always wanted to do linocuts. Is this a metallic ink? It looks great! :)

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    9 months ago

    That is fantastic detail; at first glance I thought you’d laser cut it. Incredibly precise. It must have been very meditative to do the carving by hand.

    Question: do you have a press, or is this hand-rubbed as well? Either way, great work.

    • Julien Catanese@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      haha, meditative is the term yes, it’s very long, more than thirty hours of engraving :) thank you! all my prints are printed by hand. using a sterile sterile and a tablespoon :)