I’ve continued working with the “Ostalgie” plates. Another Ostalgie print (the fourth). I’m also hoping to bring some of this color/multi-plate technique into my images. I experimented a bit with the “Family” plate I’ve shown here.
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Ostalgie continues, experiments with family
Posted in Printmaking on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Crown Point Press #3
Posted in Printmaking on June 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Here are some pics of Crown Point Press. Eye candy for you printmakers reading this! Down-draft tables make spit-biting with nitric safe, tall copper wiping tables are warmed from below, large copper covered hot plates make rolling on ground a breeze, and an unbelievable selection of colored inks to choose from. Wow! [...]
Crown Point Press Workshop #2
Posted in Printmaking, tagged crown point press, etching, shawn demarest on June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The next prints involved a number of processes – all ones I had hoped to learn more about. Spit bite, chine colle, and multiple plates were used to make these prints. I liked Crown Point’s registration process a lot – and the full-image chine colle was fantastic. By the end of the [...]
Crown Point Press Workshop
Posted in Printmaking on June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just arrived from San Francisco – after a 5-day workshop at Crown Point Press. Can’t say enough about the quality of the shop, and the knowledge of the printers. I’ll be bringing much of what I learned into my studio practice over the next few months. Here are a few of [...]
Just when you thought you knew me…
Posted in Printmaking on May 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last spring I made a print called Edwards park. In it, an intriguing man (I later met, named Jaybird) was playing didgeridoo. In my print, he’s levitating, and a curved, back-and-forth line shows that. The power of that line stayed with me. And I got an idea for it a few [...]
More on Seahorse, frontside monoprints, and a new plate
Posted in Printmaking on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Seahorse print continues along. Posted here after aquatint #2.
The Seahorse is a backside print (see postings below). The etching on the other side was never editioned, but, I did pull a couple of monoprints. Guardians nos 1&2 was based on a vivid dream I had while sleeping in a [...]
Backside Etching
Posted in Printmaking on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last year I worked on two plates that I didn’t end up editioning. Usually, I paint the backside of plates before I begin working on them – this time I didn’t. Instead I used wide masking tape to cover the back each time I bit the plate (in ferric chloride). The little [...]
Working on a plate, and something new…
Posted in Printmaking on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The copper plate I’m working on is titled “Family”. It isn’t finished, but I’m posting a monoprint here. Rather than wipe away the ink, I sometimes play with it, creating something new – and further developing the images. This helps to inform what I will do next (deeper aquatints or lighter areas). [...]
Back at Bite
Posted in Printmaking, tagged Chris Haberman, Jennifer Mercede, Jesse Reno, Michael Fields, SE Artwalk on February 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For various reasons, I haven’t been printmaking for the last few months. Last week I returned to Bite Studio, and finished printing two editions. Both of these plates were collaborations. The first with Chris Haberman the second with Jesse Reno. They are both artists whose work I love, and whose approach to painting I thought [...]
A new monoprint, and slow yet busy
Posted in Printmaking on December 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have two copper plates that I really love to use as a base for monoprints. A monoprint is a one of a kind print, but with some permanent, repeatable part. In this case, it is one of two copper plates. These monoprints take considerably longer to ink and print than an editioned plate. Basically, [...]
