Printmaking
"The highest purpose of art is to inspire"- Bob Dylan, singer
Cyanotype print made at the Sawdust Festival of Art 2023
A Cyanotype is a a monochrome print or image made by placing objects on a pre-prepared light sensitive surface. Cyanotypes are created without a camera, the prints or images they create are correctly called "photograms". The very name cyanotype is derived from the Ancient Greek words for "Dark Blue" and Mark/impression/type. The vast majority of cyanotype printing creates a negative photographic image on a dark blue surface- the light sensitive surface is exposed to the sun to "develop", capturing the shadow of the objects placed on the surface, creating a stencil -style image. This precursor to photography was discovered in 1842 by Sir John Hershel, and was quickly adopted and experimented with by various artists.
"Ethiopian Woman Selling Cotton"- 16" x 20"- Relief woodcut print on Tusche paper
Etching print- 4" x 4"
Print made on plexiglass plate cut with a pencil at the Festival of Arts 2023
"Ryan"- Linoleum Print- 4" x 6"
"Jonathan Hunt"- Linoleum Print on Rives BFK paper- 4" x 4.5 "
"Victims of War" 4" x 3"- Monoprint on Arches Watercolor paper
"War"- 4.2" x 3"- Monoprint on Arches Watercolor paper
"Bambi"- 3" x 5"- Monoprint on Arches Watercolor paper
"Lake Swift Current"- 5.5" x 8"- Collograph Print on Rives BFK paper*
Collograph with superimposed horse- 16" x 20"- Rives BFK paper
"Man"-Linocut prints- 5" x 6"- Shaded with spoon on tusche paper
"Fish"- Collograph print- 8" x 10"- Rives BFK paper
"Lake Swift Current Storm"- Collograph print on Rives BFK paper- 16" x 20" * Sold through the Skoto Gallery of Art in New York
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Leonardo da Vinci