Model and Chair by Ruthie V. 10×8″ drypoint on grey BFK
What a great day! Nikki and I hung out in the studio and made drypoint prints. The image above was my favorite of the day. It was scratched into plexiglass using 220 grit sandpaper and a diamond tipped scribe, then printed on grey BFK. I was originally intending to paint the composition, but thought it’d be interesting to sketch it as a print first. Today was drypoint. I might try making it into a woodblock as well.
This could be a new studio practice for me: printmaking as a pre-step before painting. When I draw, print, or paint an image, I engage in various forms of problem solving. The wider variety of problem solving, the more forms I see my ideas take, the more I hone in on what I want to pull out of the image. I can already tell my painting will be easier to paint, and better. Also, great ideas and good compositions are not easy to come by, and this way I get to make more with my favorite images. I’m excited about this. I’ve already started several more drypoints of new painting references. We’ll see what happens.
Announcing the 2nd annual Seattle Artist League Portrait Awards! 1st Prize: $1,000 cash2nd Prize: $500 SAL Gift Certificate3rd Prize: $300 SAL Gift CertificateHonorable Mentions: $100 SAL Gift Certificates Guest judge: Catherine Lepp Call ends 3/1/2022 @ midnight PST The Seattle Artist League Portrait Awards aim to encourage artists to focus on and develop the theme of portraiture in their work. The …
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. – Hans Hoffman I wrote a V-Note September 19, 2016 about simplification and massing. You can read it here. Today’s V-Note: Marc Bohne One of the (many) reasons I struggle to paint outside is that I get so danged overwhelmed by everything. There’s …
League instructor Jon Patrick is teaching a class on artist’s books. One of the works mentioned in his class today was this collaboration between Asger Jorn and Guy Debord. Jorn and Debord were part of Situationist International, and CoBrA. [divider line_type=”Full Width Line From Wikipedia: Mémoires (Memories) is an artist’s book made by the Danish artist …
I was looking for an artwork to include in a newsletter. I wanted something to talk about friendship, while also giving a reference to social distancing and connections from afar. I found this 1937 painting by Dora Maar that seemed just right…. and then I didn’t end up needing the image. I thought it was …
Printmaking as a Complement to Painting
What a great day! Nikki and I hung out in the studio and made drypoint prints. The image above was my favorite of the day. It was scratched into plexiglass using 220 grit sandpaper and a diamond tipped scribe, then printed on grey BFK. I was originally intending to paint the composition, but thought it’d be interesting to sketch it as a print first. Today was drypoint. I might try making it into a woodblock as well.
This could be a new studio practice for me: printmaking as a pre-step before painting. When I draw, print, or paint an image, I engage in various forms of problem solving. The wider variety of problem solving, the more forms I see my ideas take, the more I hone in on what I want to pull out of the image. I can already tell my painting will be easier to paint, and better. Also, great ideas and good compositions are not easy to come by, and this way I get to make more with my favorite images. I’m excited about this. I’ve already started several more drypoints of new painting references. We’ll see what happens.
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I was looking for an artwork to include in a newsletter. I wanted something to talk about friendship, while also giving a reference to social distancing and connections from afar. I found this 1937 painting by Dora Maar that seemed just right…. and then I didn’t end up needing the image. I thought it was …