Prints from Senior Show:

The prints that were sold (YAY!) are gone forever- I will post pictures of their brothers and sisters soon. Since my runs are inconsistent, each print has a little something special- its own character; a slightly differing color scheme usually. The point of doing an edition is to have the prints all be the same- it's a skill I am still working on, also the reason I trend towards monotypes as a printmaker.

Aeonium






Sempervivum





Dawn in the Garden



Hen and Chicks





Lithops

a drive-by tour of my senior show works

Dawn in the garden
Intaglio- 4 plate- akua inks. Quick to work up and print. rives lightweight.



gelatin print with woodblock over it. watercolor added. rives lightweight.
This one was a huge experiment. Awesome fun making gelatin prints with my teacher Elizabeth Cameron (a fantastic printmaker) and the woodcut was done a little later.


This ones my favorite. It's echeverias- I did it with the careful layering of transparent inks. The dark blues and greens are all the same color grey- overlayed over different base hues it looks like several different colors. I blew my own world a little with this one.



This one is a set of about 20 monoprints. The edition failed when I couldn't decide how to resolve the print and kept niggling away at the colors, printing and reprinting the layers. The carving took what felt like a lifetime and made me need a break from woodcuts- its 2'x2'.







These are some paintings bonding with my prints. I sold two prints all told- thanks to whoever bought the one and to Kathy who bought my favorite. Featured in the photo far off are another etching and a few more relief prints.

The show featured 9 prints in all and only two paintings. So I took away a painting major with a printmaking minor- the first one at the NHIA- and had two paintings to show for it. Needless to say I enjoyed my minor more. I am looking around for ways to incorporate them with each other. The more I get into monotypes the more I see the link between painting and printmaking shrinking.