Category: My Art
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Working with small plates at the print shop
My new mini-print mini folio: the folio is 6″x7.5″, & has the hand rubbed iris print on the front. Inside are two variations from a shellac matboard plate, mounted for easy removal. The plates are 3″x3″. The color on the 2nd fuschia print is watercolor painted added after the print was dry. I was tired…
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Drawing on wood & new prints (w/colored pencil)
The drawing is done with water soluble graphite pencils, “painted” with water, on a piece of MDF (medium density fiberboard) primed with two coats of white Golden Absorbent Ground. I like this ground, and being able to use water media directly on a board, no paper! The collagraph plate is built up on matboard with…
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Current work…
I have added a bit to my Rodin Exorcism piece, and at left is a digital manipulation of a new sketch inspired by a piece of sculpture at Northwind Arts Center NWDC exhibit. The sketch is only 8″x5″, the Rodin piece is 18″x24″.
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Proofing plates without the press…
I am working with various low tech matboard 3″x3″ plates for a print exchange. I have made some 12 foil covered collagraph plates, and eight shellac over cut matboard plates, but have not yet printed all of them! The first six foil plates are too irregular and don’t quite please me: some are not square,…
