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working on some monoprint drypoint plates... this is about 18" wide and drawn on plexiglass, also I still need to figure out how to get good registration!
Looking at printmaking colours to compliment the coast pots. Hawthorn oil-based relief inks, ghost-printed from mixing plate.
monoprinting / printmaking with gelli plate / day 2
i had trouble scanning this as i used neon pink acryla gouache with this and when scanning it reflects. i tried my best to match the final print with photoshop. i think would like this much more on the smoother side of the watercolor paper.
Today’s etchings is based on a drawing I did for #inktober 2021. The color is nearly a Paynes grey/blue The last image had purple added. flic.kr/p/2mxPNWq
Printmaking creation made from an etching on plexiglass. I added watercolour and ink afterwards.( 9.5 " x 7.5") Framed and under glass.
Edgar Degas French, 1834 -1917
Frieze of Dancers ( Danseuses attachant leurs sandales) , ca. 1895
Oil on canvas
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Gift of the Hanna Fund.
This work encapsulates Dega’s interest in repetition and variation—lessons learned from his monotypes. One of the artist’s largest paintings, it shows four ballerinas in nearly identical poses, tying their toe shoes, depicted from different angles. But are we seeing four dancers? The two figures at left look like mirror images, recalling the reversals of printmaking. Or are we circling around a single dancer, following Degas as he carries out an instruction found in one of his own notebooks, to “study from all perspectives a figure or an object, it doesn’t matter which”? With that in mind, the painting may relate to contemporaneous time-motion studies by Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey, who tried to document action through successive still photographs. The filmstrip-like composition may also allude to cinema, newly emerging in Degas’s day. The ambiguous background, rendered in earthy tones, derives from his experiments with monotype.
From the placard Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
15.5×32 inch letterpress / woodcut combo. The piece is bigger than the Vandercook I was working on, so I had to do it in two runs… the whole process involved way more math than any art kid should have to deal with…
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2012