My first attempt at a 4-color photo-intaglio, “Snow Shadows,” had technical problems with the black plate last year. So I improvised and made it a 2-color plate with red and black(using the cyan plate for the black ink). This year, I re-visited the image and exposed another black plate to reprinted the image again, now as a 4-color image. The result is a richer print, with warm yellows in the reflected light, and cooler shadows in the foreground.
12″ x 9″ drypoint in copper plate of Barcelona’s famous walk on “La Rambla” late at night.
Two-color screen print on taupe paper, of Thompson Street, Tribecca area, New York City.
11″ x 14″ photo intaglio print based upon a photo I took during early autumn snowfall on a hike below the Kaaterskill falls in New York State. I was attracted to the textures of the rocks, contrasting the flow of the water between and over their surfaces.
This 20″ x 16″ print is a mixed-media layering of three printings from two plates. The first matrix/plate was a collagraph on masonite(carving of buildings and covered with lace, acrylic gel, and gauze), first wiped with black ink and then rolled with off-white ink as a block print on top. The third layer was from another plate, a photo intaglio plate with the details of the building windows, that is wiped with black ink and printed on top.
18″x14″ Two-plate photo intaglio from my photo of our back walkway after a heavy snowfall. I was attracted to the graphic textures on the bushes and the rhythm of the shadows from the railings on the snow. I didn’t print all the colors of the actual photo, leaving out the black plate, which had grounded the background trees, loosing that illusive background.
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