some new found inspiration.
lovely etchings {and mixed media prints} by colleen kinsella of portland, maine.
{a play on words}
one of my newest etchings. i am quite fond of this piece because of the time and energy that it took to make it. I colored the children’s clothing with chine colle paper….5 pieces to be exact and then editioned it to 10! I have been holding out on showing this until the right moment….which i guess is now? hm
a new collagraph series i recently completed. after these were printed (and dried), i watercolored onto them and sewed onto a few.
{one of these is on its way to the UK right now!}
a small zinc plate that I plan to run a large edition of. large meaning probably 25 or so. you will soon discover that I have gone doilie crazy.
jen corace
jeff depner
found these today…thought id share some beauty.
have a lovely day!
as i was eating my first clementine for the day (thanks to abby for my new addiction to them), i noticed the little trees that they contained within the peel. i foresee a softground etching in the future! these would make perfect little tree imprints onto a plate to etch….im excited with the ideas and possibilities that my little clementine forest contains!
i re-printed these from an etch i did a year ago. i added some color; i think they turned out pretty nice.
this is where i like to be…
another new print. again, this is an intaglio etching with chine colle. im sending images of three of my prints (including this one) off today to a gallery in Louisiana for an upcoming exhibition. cross your fingers that my work is accepted!
probably should have posted this a little sooner. but, my work is currently on display (along with several other amazing printers in our area) at Fayetteville Underground. its a new gallery in our area, and is actually in its early stages of development. The area is stunningly beautiful in a renovated building on the downtown square. I encourage anyone in the area to check it out. unfortunately the reception was thursday, but the show will be up through april!
as promised….here are my newest linoleum cuts. the one with the brown beard turned out a little….eh…..i am partial to the solid blue simply because of its cleaner lines.
once i get my registration lined up again for a print that i have already started…{eh-hem….after a little dilemma in the print shop}, i will have more prints hot off the press!
here…i’ll share some inspiration with you
cody hoyt’s work is impeccable, and the processes behind them seem tedious….his dedication to a single piece of work can only raise your appreciation for what he’s doing here. most of his pieces involve many layers onto one work of art { including: silkscreen, etching, gouache, and lithography to name a few}.
im thinking of turning this into a linoleum cut. i will let you know if i do. regardless….a lino print will be developed soon.
available now at earlygriffin {click image}
there isnt much to say here other than amazing.
from abby
from suzanne
our friends abby and suzanne came over the other night and gave us some pretty amazing gifts. 4 porcelain cups made by abby, as well as some fancy napkins with a great pattern on them. suzanne drew us a picture of a robot with some really nice words pasted on the bottom, as well as an amazing 3-plate intaglio etch she made….and a fantastic new garden book for me to draw in!
i love my friends.
These are two of my collograph prints. These were rolled with etching ink and then ran through a press. the texture was achieved by gluing 3-dimensional circles and thread onto torn cardboard. i then gessoed the piece and covered it in polyurethane so that it could resist ink so that i could clean it off and reuse it in order to create multiple prints with multiple colors without damaging the plate.
Collograph: in simple terms it is the process of creating a textured medium to rub or print on a press in order to accomplish a mirrored reproduction of the textured piece.
We have all made collographs at some point in our lives. For example, a leaf rubbing. you know, the ones where you place a leaf, stick, penny, or other random object under your paper, then rub a crayon (or something) on top in order to get a reproduction of that object on paper. or what about those people (or maybe its you) that rub names off of head stones, sidewalks, or memorial walls? this too is a simplistic version of a collagraph print.
When done right, collographs can be beautiful…there are endless opportunities as there are countless textured items surrounding us daily that would make incredible prints.
So today at school we were asked to begin our ideas and plates for a collograph print. I was forced into doing my own research outside of class since I have no recollection as to what he was actually saying during class. I probably learn more by actually going out of my way to learn something rather than listen to the murmur of my instuctor explain something he’d rather not be explaining. So, here is the result of my research. This is a collograph print created by Jenny Bullen. It seems rather simple compared to the explanation given by my instructor. That’s not to say that the ideas and thoughts behind this creation were simple….just the overall technique. After a little googlin’ I’m inspired to actually do something with this rather than stare at my classmates hoping for some collographatic epiphany!
