Divas

In Etching, we were given an assignment to create our own assignment that had to do with time.
I had some ideas for etchings that I really liked, but I kind of got swooped up into a collaborative with Morgan, which was fun.

I had an idea(not for etching) to do The Greatest Art Show of All Time and just have different artists submit art for different categ ories, such as The Greatest Fictional Character of All Time or The Best Toilet Paper of All Time, etc. Morgan and I have a running joke about "Divas" and she took my idea and morphed it into The Greatest Divas of All Time.

I would have liked to develop one of the ideas that I had, but I still enjoyed working on this one.
Collaboratives are definitely learning experiences; the people involved have to learn to balance the work load, be understanding of ideas and obstacles, and combine their style of work with the others involved.

I'm not really pleased with how the final etching came out, but I think the images that eventually turned into a coloring book look pretty cool.

Here ya go, final print:

There were some real issues with Dolly's face (in the first run through she looked like a gremlin) and Marie Antoinette didn't turn out as hoped, but this is all a lesson in the technicalities of Etching. We transferred the images by tracing them through paper onto the hardground, then drawing in by hand, which seems like a pretty elementary way of doing it, but all in all, not a bad experience.

Here are the coloring book pages, please feel free to print and enjoy. 

The ones I drew are Dolly Parton, Lil' Kim, Marie Antoinette, Miss Piggy, Leslie Hall and Madonna.

Morgan drew Sophia (from Golden Girls), Cher, Cruella de Vil, Martha Stewart, Dennis Rodman and Frida Kahlo.

If you click them, they should come up in a new tab or window as larger images.

We forgot to include Catwoman in the book, so I stuck her on a sign above a stack of books for people to take in the art building.