Blue Flower Limited Edition Art for Sale

 

Blue Flower Ghost original  

11 x 14 Charbonnel oil monoprint on Fabriano Tiepolo paper, 2019

$300 unframed

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More Monoprints - One Original and Two Doctored

Guess which is the original and which two have had Photoshop elements added.

Blue Flower Monoprint Transformed

I printed an original and a ghost of a blue flower on the last day of my 4 class KALA workshop.  Neither of them came out well.  So, I modified them digitally.  They are better than they were!

Bird

I was having a bummer of a monoprint class at KALA last night and three away 3 prints and one failed chine colle.  Finally, I reverted to my favorite theme - birds!  This print came out OK.  11x14 charbonnel oil ink on a plastic plate.  Messy process but can be fun.

The Big Eye Monoprint Plus

Experimenting further with monoprints. 

Top:  The original ghost of my 1st Kala student monoprint study with added Roche pastels

Bottom:  A digital copy of the original monoprint with a photo composite overlay (middle photo) run through a Topaz Labs HDR filter.

Recent Crow Woodcut Prints

Above are three of eight recent prints (EV or Edition Verite - meaning I used the same 9x12 woodblock for all 8 prints but experimented with a different technique when printing each one). These were done in a recent woodblock cutting class at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley.  Top two prints are examples of Chine Colle, using different Japanese kozo papers.  Prints are 11" x 15." Prints 4/8, 7/8 and 8/8 are variations on the black ink theme (as in 3/8 above).   Print 5/8 is another version of Chine Colle, seen above in print 2/8, and print 6/8 was given to my very knowledgeable Kala teacher Claire Kessler-Bradner.  There is no intentional symbolism related to the 7 circles behind the Crow, although I could make something up if provoked.

Art is the Best Therapy - New Prints

Prints from the San Anselmo Printmakers 3rd press run.  Top to Bottom:
1.  Strange Journey #1 collagraph
2.  Crane ghost monotype with ink and gouache
3.  Blackbird ghost monotype with ink and gouache
4.  Surfer monotype with gouache and watercolor
5.  Blackbird in Marin monotype chine colle with gouache
6.  Crane in Carmel monotype chine colle with pastel and gouache

Bird Prints

Touched up prints from top to bottom:

Blue-crowned MotMot ghost print

Blue-crowned MotMot in ginger chine colle

Blue Parrot with Baobab trees

Blue Parrot with Baobab trees chine colle 

Blue-Crowned Motmot Monotype

Best unadulterated print of mine, made during the 2nd San Anselmo Printmakers artwork day, was this blue-crowned motmot chine colle monotype.   The process included an Adobe Illustrator B&W drawing, of a motmot bird collaged into a photograph of ginger, taken in Maui, then printed on Kozo paper, then glued to 100% cotton rives bfk paper, then monoprinted with akua inks and liquid pigments using a polycarbonate plate.

Helleborus

Experimenting with different techniques.  This 11x15 print is an encaustic monotype with pastel and ink.

Elsa At Goleta Beach, 1960 - Three Monotypes

Taking my Lindstrom Machinery etching press on its first run, our San Anselmo printmaking group got together to do some initial experiments with Akua intaglio inks and liquid pigments, making monotypes with polycarbonate .030 and PETG plates printing onto dry Rives BFK 100% cotton French mouldmade paper. Doing drypoint on the plastic plates didn't seem to result in strong enough line work, so I hand inked later. Damp paper would probably have worked better.  The Akua liquid pigments also didn't work as well as desired either, so the prints were finished with pastels, which worked beautifully.  More experimentation to come!