profiteri #11 - The Computer Scientist.

profiteri - (Latin) 'declare publicly' (see profess). sense 1 derives from the notion of an occupation that one ‘professes’ to be skilled in.

profiteri #11 - The Computer Scientist (drypoint etching)

profiteri #10 - The Librarian.

profiteri - (Latin) 'declare publicly' (see profess). sense 1 derives from the notion of an occupation that one ‘professes’ to be skilled in.

profiteri #10 - The Librarian (drypoint etching)

Weaving the Story.

A friend and I decided to continue our Art MOOC happiness and to set ourselves new projects every couple of months. The first project was to start with a found object, to use the concept of weaving, and to use more than two different techniques in making the object.

I decided to weave a story and make a book. I have been somewhat obsessed with making books recently. I started with an old cotton sheet that I found at the car boot sale. I ripped it into strips, and wrote a story onto the strips. I then wove the strips to form two double pages to construct a book. The rest of the book is made up of drawing, painting, collage, transfer on fabric (with packaging tape), hand and machine stitching.

It is not important to know the story, but it is a happy one, with a good ending. You can weave your own story by looking at the illustrations.
Front page:

First double page:

Second double page:

Third double page:

Fourth double page:

Fifth double page:

Sixth double page:

Seventh double page:

Eighth double page:

Ninth double page:

Back page:

Weaving the Story (A4-size book - paper, gauze, found objects, cotton, ink, paint, thread, transfer, glue; hand and machine stitched)

profiteri #9 - The TV Personality.

profiteri - (Latin) 'declare publicly' (see profess). sense 1 derives from the notion of an occupation that one ‘professes’ to be skilled in.

profiteri #9 - The TV Personality (drypoint etching).

profiteri #8 - The Whistleblower.

profiteri - (Latin) 'declare publicly' (see profess). sense 1 derives from the notion of an occupation that one ‘professes’ to be skilled in.

profiteri #8 - The Whistleblower (drypoint etching).

profiteri #7 - The Author.

profiteri - (Latin) 'declare publicly' (see profess). sense 1 derives from the notion of an occupation that one ‘professes’ to be skilled in.

profiteri #7 - The Author (drypoint etching).

profiteri #6 - The Musician.

profiteri - (Latin) 'declare publicly' (see profess). sense 1 derives from the notion of an occupation that one ‘professes’ to be skilled in.

profiteri #6 - The Musician (drypoint etching).

profiteri #5 - The Architect.

profiteri - (Latin) 'declare publicly' (see profess). sense 1 derives from the notion of an occupation that one ‘professes’ to be skilled in.

profiteri #5 - The Architect (drypoint etching).

profiteri #4 - The Proofreader.

profiteri - (Latin) 'declare publicly' (see profess). sense 1 derives from the notion of an occupation that one ‘professes’ to be skilled in.

profiteri #4 - The Proofreader (drypoint etching).

profiteri #3 - The Physicist.

profiteri - (Latin) 'declare publicly' (see profess). sense 1 derives from the notion of an occupation that one ‘professes’ to be skilled in.

profiteri #3 - The Physicist (drypoint etching).

profiteri #2 - The Ornithologist.

profiteri - (Latin) 'declare publicly' (see profess). sense 1 derives from the notion of an occupation that one ‘professes’ to be skilled in

profiteri #2 - The Ornithologist (drypoint etching).

profiteri #1 - The Mathematician.

 profiteri - (Latin) 'declare publicly' (see profess). sense 1 derives from the notion of an occupation that one ‘professes’ to be skilled in

I started with this series of etchings six weeks ago.  Originally I intended to make two or three illustrations of faces. Then I thought it would be neat to make them of people illustrating different professions, for example an ornithologist with a bird, an architect with a building, etc.  I soon found out that I can not draw out of my head. All the facial features looked the same - the noses, the eyes and eyebrows, the shapes of the faces. So I ditched the first few illustrations and started over, this time using photographs of real people as a starting point. They are not meant to be likenesses, in fact some of them hardly look like the person I used as basis. I ended up with 14 different professions. 
Time to stop now.

profiteri #1 - The Mathematician (drypoint etching).
(Quite a lot of plate tone on this one. I think I will clean it up a little more when I finally print it on good etching paper.)