Print making

I have been taking a summer class at UNCA, and it has been pretty intense.  But I love it.  I dream about it.  In many ways I needed another art project to fill the hole my show left.  But now I am working on my finial project for the class, and since my trip out west is still on the brain, insipration struck.

I am taking all of the beautiful landscape pictures that I have, with all of the arm outstreched pictures and melding the two.  I have complete control over the background and the figures.  I can put whoever I want in the pictures with Buffalo or a coyote.  It is fun recreating a trip that did not happen in the way my prints say that it did.  For example did you know that we saw a coyote run on water?  Or that Aly stood nest to a Buffalo and her baby?  So what if it did not happen, I see it on my mind and boom there it is.  It is pretty amazing to know that I can make as many of these beauties as I want.  I am going to take Print Making 2 next semester, and not ceramics 3.  

The only bad thing about this class?  The constant scraping and drawing is taking a toll on my hand.  It will not stop shaking and when working on details that is a bad thing.  It just takes some breathing and hand clenching and it subsides.