Category Archives: Printmaking

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

Bones over bones

P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell Posted on by

Overlaid Bones

 

This has multiple printing of a poly litho plate over those four linocuts I am currently obsessing with. Not sure if this will resolve into a finished work: I over inked the lino plates, and switched the position of the top two plates, so this may never satisfy!  TBD

I am still enjoying this piece, and have added more as shown below:  more color fill makes the overlaid bones into a more substantial “body”, and the red-green contrast wakes it up a bit. The second scan is duller than the reality, which has two shades of green.

And I am still working on this:

Overlaid Bones 2

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Walking Bones take me far!

P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell Posted on by
Bones: the Spill

Bones: the Spill

This project has taken me a long way! And maybe more to come…  I am using (amusing?) four lino cut plates, then working them in different directions. No simple print has worked alone, but I am Mixed Media therefore I have fun… I really enjoy the working back into a piece, altering it, improving it, trying NOT to destroy it, and transforming it until it really satisfies me! This one is not quite done, but it is getting there. It is fourth full size work from this set that is complete, or almost so. Oh, and I love a digital spin-off from one of them so that makes five!

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Printing Walking Bones, a set of four plates

P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell Posted on by

This is not going as planned, but no surprise there 🙂 Consistent inking is a problem, and I am sure there is some small variations in the thickness of my four plates; in fact two plates have thicker edges.At this point I am not sure I like anything about these prints, but things will change!

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From Corvidae print shop, plus …

P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell Posted on by
Matboard "etching" print with drawing

Matboard “etching” print with drawing

Party Favors

Party Favors

Horns gold w floating figureYou never know when you will need an older image: this is mix & match time!

Loving mixed media! I could go for a 5 year school/apprenticeship to learn how to do what I want in one difficult technique, OR I can do exactly what I want/need/and already know how to do to get the end result I want! At my age, the choice is an easy one!

Swirl Rope ghost w color

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Don’t like the copper plate, but must play on…

P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell Posted on by

I can use the prints from this too monotonous, too busy, too light… etched copper plate as a starting point for new work.

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Printing when I should be packing …

P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell Posted on by

Time is running out, and I need to pack for the trip to Colorado. I will meet up with family and enjoy the mountain air, but for now:  I must print! I have the first draft of a new linocut, plus I want to see modifications to two other linocuts. So here are some proofs:

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From the Corvidae Print Shop

P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell Posted on by

I certainly appreciate the Corvidae Press shop when trying to do a bit of “production” printmaking!  I have been in twice this week to work, and it was great. I love the space!  BUT I must remember watch out for hot sun on the inking station: that sets the ink up in hurry…

I need that space to mark & tear large sheets of paper, and to properly soak & blot paper as I print. And it takes two inking stations to ink this multipart plate. And the large press is SO NICE! Still, getting an edition of 15 with this plate is slow going as I experiment with ink colors. Since the theme is experimentation, I am not striving to produce identical prints… so that makes it more fun.

The above gallery of images includes an early proof, and a print using “two” plates (well actually part of the same plate, re-inked in black, and hand rubbed). I have some 20 8″x10″ prints now, so this will likely be my contribution the Corvidae 2013 print exchange, unless I spend all next week on another plate and change my mind …

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Time to Print: making a collograph plate from …

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Collograph from lino
This is pastel over a collograph print. The plate is made from cut up pieces of old linoleum plates that no longer interest me. Some of these are mounted to an 8″x10″ board, others cut to fit, but left loose to be inked separately.
I have not got a final working plate yet, but it has some promise!

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