Fine Art Prints
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Learning the skills of printmaking requires patience and experimentation. I approach creating prints as I do with pastels, a layer at a time. Often I begin with the background, and work to the surface foreground. The process of making a print informs the image, allowing the process to suggest what the next layer will be. This openness in attitude keeps the image fresh, and helps me to find new ways of developing an image.
Most of the monoprints are done in one or two studio sessions, using plexiglass plates or wet media acetate, and oil-based inks. The plates are run through the etching press multiple times to achieve many layers of color. I will sometimes use stencils and other transfer techniques, such as gum transfer, to add additional layers to the composition.
I use a variety of other printmaking techniques as well, such as chine colle’, etching and drypoint, aquatint, collagraph, and relief (woodcut and linocut). I generally do not do large editions, preferring to create more one-of-a-kind, full color prints.
I use a combination of Rives BRK, Somerset Satin, Kitakata and handmade kozo, and other fibered papers (for chine colle’), Copperplate Hahnemuhle, and full feather deckle Twinrocker papers.
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