Brilliant Thoughts

by Jonathan Brilliant

Conway Day 10, printy in pink

Since I never know what I am going to run into when working in borrowed print studios, I always love the little discoveries that come with printing on the fly on borrowed equipment. The great discovery at Coastal’s print studio was a huge cache of silver metallic etching ink. I had already been thinking about making these new sleeve prints in a reddish color, and thus 2012’s first editions became metallic pink java jacket prints.

Conway Day 8

I spent today and Yesterday resolving the stick form physically and laying in the final bits of “mud” on the wall. After a string of 12hour days, the ten hours today almost seemed like a break. I can tell I am on the downhill of this one as my punch list now consists of clean Read more...

Conway Day 6

I was able to get the first pass of the coffee stain on the wall. Next I will keep layering up the pattern a little bit to build up the swirls, after that I will remove the tape and complete the pattern.

I’ve been thinking about the process with this piece as my Richard Long moment. Read more...

Conway Day 5

Spent Most of the day fleshing out the woven form, now looking forward to tackling some more of the stain.

Conway Day Four

I managed to continue laying in some of the outer edges, and started the wall staining. There was something very satisfying about mixing espresso dust and water to make my paste/mud for the wall. It kind of reminded me of my first british inspired works scattering espresso dust in 2005. I’ve now crossed the half Read more...