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P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell

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P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell

Category Archives: Printmaking

Hand pulled (or rubbed!) prints: linocuts, etchings, monotypes, collagraphs, etc.

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Finishing, Futzing and Foiling!

P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell Posted on June 6, 2020 by SandraJune 6, 2020
My hand-tinted polylitho print is featured, along with two variations of digital foils
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About These Times: Covid-19

P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell Posted on April 8, 2020 by SandraApril 8, 2020
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Posted in Digital, My Art, Printmaking, Sculpture | Tagged CoronaVirus, Covid-19

Back to Work II

P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell Posted on January 3, 2020 by SandraJanuary 3, 2020

I still don’t know what the final product will be for this piece. I don’t expect to try printing from it again, and certainly not without reworking it with engraving tools. So how to finish and present this?

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Working the Print

P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell Posted on November 22, 2019 by SandraNovember 22, 2019

I am a mixed media artist, and so not a printmaker! Having put the time & energy into this large “proof” print, I need to make it a finished piece. There are so many other tools of the trade! So far, a bit of watercolor, soft pastels, and colored pencil… I think the key is shading, especially to “flesh out” the dancer. I am rather liking this now, with the work so far:

The paper, at 22″ x 30″, is slightly smaller than the plate so the edges are cut off. The full print above is a photo; I have only scanned the shaded figure, and that still took multiple scans. Wish I had a professional large scanner, but the cost would be prohibitive.

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Dancer Print

P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell Posted on November 19, 2019 by SandraNovember 19, 2019

Here I decided to use my rotary tool engraved steel panel as a printing plate. The piece is experimental; more of a sampler of textures than a finished art piece. But I am sufficiently amused by the results!

At 24 7/8″ by 30 3/8″, this panel/plate is far too big for my 18″ wide press bed, so I hand rubbed this first proof. Also I don’t have paper soaking trays, and my paper was spritzed and put in plastic, but not for long enough. The paper was much too dry, so I spritzed it during the inking in order to get something I could see (no release agent at hand).

I inked the plate “a la poupee”, unfortunately rather unevenly, using a tightly rolled & taped sock as my dauber. Then I wiped rather badly also… It was a case of “inking after drinking” a couple of glasses of wine with dinner!

So the proof print is light, uneven, and speckled! Oh well! At this point, I am not sure if I will work the plate a bit more to try for a decent print. I am not sure how much I will like the result, even with a good print.

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In Circles

P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell Posted on October 21, 2019 by SandraOctober 21, 2019
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Magnification

P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell Posted on October 8, 2019 by SandraOctober 8, 2019

Adding color to an older polylitho black ink ghost print… and then going digital! In addition to some digital transformations, I have added a digital variation of a drawn & colored figure for a bit of fun.

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Handwork on Prints

P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell Posted on September 27, 2019 by SandraSeptember 29, 2019

“Wooden ships on the water, very free”. Or maybe there is just the one ship, and the one fishing net, there in the top two 3″ x 3″ prints.

I think the double print is quite different. So probably the lower image is not a wooden ship, but a plant; a fern in the ground, with five fronds newly emerging above the surface. And I suppose the upper image is not a fishing net at all, but a sea creature submerged below the surface of the ocean, with delicate tendrils reaching up to find plankton in sunlit layers above it.

OK, despite my own claims sometimes I do have story for my artworks. But generally the stories come after, not before, the making. The images must come first, then the story. If I start out with a story line and a plan, the artwork will likely never be completed, never be satisfying. The joy, the exploration, will probably be absent, and there will be only work and frustration.

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Working Back

P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell Posted on September 19, 2019 by SandraSeptember 19, 2019

The above pieces are all tweaks or revisions or completions of older work. I stash everything, especially old prints that I never saw as finished works. Generally I printed several prints from various plates, and after working into a few to complete them as mixed media pieces, I would tuck away a few still incomplete. It is interesting to see these again, and work on them years later. Sometimes I can compare my newly finished pieces with ones I finished the same year I printed the starting images. Not sure I learn much, but I do have fun!

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Posted in My Art, Printmaking | Tagged change, finishing, mixed media, time

Older Renewed

P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell Posted on September 1, 2019 by SandraSeptember 1, 2019

Adding, subtracting, & manipulating as I put away Studio Tour displays!

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Posted in Drawing, Printmaking

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