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Making Handmade Books.
This is an art form that leaves room for the artists' imagination and inventiveness. The book can be displayed in many configurations depending on the bindings, structure or book form. Measuring, marking, scoring, cutting, sewing, gluing, working with paper, leaving your mark and telling your story - the making of a handmade book is an adventure to undertake.
I use my discarded prints to create artist books. At this time the handmade books are not for sale.
Collagraph.
Think "collage" when you think "Collagraph” – that is the key to this printmaking method. The term collagraph refer to a collage board where the materials are assembled on a plate to form a relief block. Collagraph plates can be “built” with various mediums such as carborundum or molding paste as well as collaged papers.
In practice, I find that I like to use the mediums to create the texture and design of the plate. It is possible as well to incise into the substrate to create line and to remove layers of a matboard to create tone.
These original prints may be unique, or a varied edition.
Images: Plate (above) and Print
Reduction Linocut is a relief printing technique similar to woodcut or wood engraving, where a flat surface of wood or linoleum serves as the printing surface. In this method, areas of the block are progressively carved away, resulting in a modified block and a multi-colored or monochrome edition print.
The process in “Bird Song” begins with the linoleum plate being inked in yellow and printed. The areas meant to remain yellow are carved away. Next, the plate is inked in orange, printed, and the areas to stay orange are carved away. This sequence continues for four more colors: red, two shades of blue, and bright green. After each color is printed, the ink must dry, making the process time-consuming.
"Bird Song" is a reduction print with linocut collage.
Linocut is a relief printing process and is produced the same way as a woodcut or a wood engraving, where a flat surface of wood or lino is used as the printing surface. The linocut came into its own after artists like Picasso and Matisse began to work in that technique.
Mojo is a hand colored linocut.
Mixed Media.
A combination of art media such as pastel, pencil, paint or collage with printmaking.
In a Monotype, the plate is featureless. This means it contains nothing (such as etched or engraved lines) that will pass on any characteristics to the prints. In the absence of any permanent features on the plate, all imagery is reliant on the artist manipulating the ink, resulting in one distinctive print. The characteristic of this method is that no two prints are alike. However, images can be similar, but editioning is not possible.
A Monoprint plate has permanent features. Variations on the theme are made when the plate is inked differently prior to each print. Possibilities for variance are infinite, and include monoprints of different color, ink density, or even size, but certain permanent features on the plate will always carry on from one print to another.
Most of my monoprints entail multiple passes through the press to lay down layers of ink, allowing drying time between passes. Each print can take several days to make.
First Snow
