drawing | halfway metamorphosis {please hover}

our first time metamorphosis was hosted by rose ariane also! let's have a look at what we are talking about four years down the road... and although i started out doubting the challenge, an early morning pinterest walk got me inspired. 

as you know i've recently played around on the gelliplate. last weekend i pulled blues only from my ancient plate that i threw out afterwards; the overall moulding had gotten too bad. no pictures of that gross decay!

i am sometimes wondering what to do with the prints. for now i store 'em and the blues i have every intention to further work on at some later stage. the above image {yes! a landscape!} should shed a light on what i aim for, perhaps in combination with collagraph. 

i love transformation when a project sets out. right at the beginning you just see details, not the whole picture. it always pushes me to the limits to my endurance : shall i go on, shall i f*** up, will all be well? usually the latter prevails.  

so i set myself loose on some scrappy nerdiness into embelleshing twenty six alphabet letters {update : just three, i'm afraid}; loving the snippety-snip doodly project, all while running out of time. 

and so also just half worked out this one, reflecting the mirroring effect on a playing card, showing the before and after, if you like. and i am still mesmerized by fritz lang's maria, the ultimate transformation project... ☻ ariane's metamorphosis.