{"id":1410,"date":"2010-11-28T03:15:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T08:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svmedaris.wordpress.com\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2010-11-28T03:15:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-28T08:15:08","slug":"wallpaper-and-rural-domesticity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wallpaper-and-rural-domesticity\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallpaper and rural domesticity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The start of a new series featuring framed works on wallpaper. All printed on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takachpress.com\/\">Takach printing press<\/a>.<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/svmedaris.com\/2010art\/medaris_wallpaper01_72.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fancy, baroque frame around detailed chicken portrait, all mounted on red, patterned wallpaper\" src=\"http:\/\/svmedaris.com\/2010art\/medaris_wallpaper01_72.jpg\" title=\"portrait with wallpaper 01\" width=\"420\" height=\"612\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#039;A Pattern of Rural Domesticity&#039; \u2022 wallpaper = about 8ft x 5ft, print within baroque frame is 8x10in \u2022 all woodcut images, with tiny etching in window beside chicken image<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Printing the wallpaper, block by block:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"red patterned paper being printed on etching press\" src=\"http:\/\/svmedaris.com\/2010art\/wallpaper_press.jpg\" title=\"wallpaper on press\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"420\" height=\"515\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/svmedaris.com\/2010art\/wi_lino_block.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lino block held up for camera. Patterned wallpaper created by this block in background\" src=\"http:\/\/svmedaris.com\/2010art\/wi_lino_block.jpg\" title=\"with lino block\" width=\"420\" height=\"515\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The linoleum used to print the wallpaper (10in x 10in)<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/svmedaris.com\/2010art\/wallpaper_pattern_block.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tiled pattern, closeup\" src=\"http:\/\/svmedaris.com\/2010art\/wallpaper_pattern_block.jpg\" title=\"wallpaper tile\" width=\"420\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A closeup of the pattern.... Bones and offal (intestines, feet, etc), axes...the joys and horror of processing chickens I guess.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And the chicken (Gold Laced Wyandotte, cock), a reduction woodcut, with little etching for outdoor window scene:<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/svmedaris.com\/2010art\/portrait_rural_domest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"reduction woodcut of chicken beside window, scene outside window shows hanging, plucked chicken\" src=\"http:\/\/svmedaris.com\/2010art\/portrait_rural_domest.jpg\" title=\"closeup of print\" width=\"420\" height=\"524\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">7 color reduction woodcut, with etching for the little window scene<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>And finally, the colors used to print the chicken in the framed reduction print:<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/svmedaris.com\/2010art\/color_seps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"colored prints surround full-color final 7-color reduction woodcut\" src=\"http:\/\/svmedaris.com\/2010art\/color_seps.jpg\" title=\"colors used in domestic chicken portrait\" width=\"420\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reduction woodcut, 8in x 10in, with colors used at different stages<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The start of a new series featuring framed works on wallpaper. All printed on my Takach printing press. Printing the wallpaper, block by block: And the chicken (Gold Laced Wyandotte, cock), a reduction woodcut, with little etching for outdoor window scene: And finally, the colors used to print the chicken in the framed reduction print:<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,38,39,49,112,4,52,53],"tags":[12,263,264],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickens","category-death","category-farm","category-fowl","category-intaglio","category-printmaking","category-relief","category-woodcut","tag-chicken","tag-old-master","tag-relief-printed-wallpaper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35JA0-mK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}