Tuesday, January 8, 2008

A Collage and a Print

When we remodeled the house, we needed something that went with our color scheme, Red, Black, Grey and Silver, so I made this collage to hang over the fireplace. It has hand made papers, mirrors and metal. It is 20" X 31" matted and framed. This is a wood cut print. Every color is a different wood cut and it represents a pass through the press. This particular piece was done in a workshop at the Fall Adult Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma. The sketches were done during an evening performance of a string quartet. We did 1 minute thumb nail sketches and then we took these back to the studio the next morning and did the drawings on the wood plates, then we carved the plates and inked them up and printed them on mulberry paper. Sometimes a print can be very intricate and there might be 100 passes through the press. It is pretty involved but the end result is worth it. It is 20" X 20" matted and framed

2 comments:

Unknown said...

All that work sure paid of, love this

Wendy said...

I love your doodle gone wild and the colours you used.