Thesis in Detail, part 8.

Squawk. Drypoint on copper.

Detail of the plate itself. Coarse sandpaper was used for the wings.

Thesis in Detail, part 7.

Snail. Drypoint on copper.

Detail.

Thesis in Detail, part 6.

Toad. Drypoint on copper.

Detail of the plate itself. Parts of a previous frog burnished away are still barely visible.

Thesis in Detail, part 5.

Mammoth. Drypoint on copper.

Detail of the plate itself.

Thesis in Detail, part 4.

"Sift" 15"x25" Screenprint and lithograph with collaged drypoint and colored wash.

Thesis in Detail, part 3.

"Sludge" 15"x25" Lithograph and screenprint with collaged drypoints.

Thesis in Detail, part 2.

"Simmer" 15"x25" Lithograph and screenprint with collaged drypoints.

Thesis in Detail, part 1.

A look back at my thesis exhibition, in detail.

"Slurp" Lithograph and screenprint with collaged drypoints and colored wash.

Snails, state II.

Snails for my second print--almost finished.

Wooly Mammoths, final state.

Engraving and drypoint on copper.

Wooly mammoths drypoint plate.

Working on some drypoint plates. These wooly mammoths are almost finished. I keep the plate inked as I work so I can see what I'm doing. You can see shiny new marks without ink in them. The snail shells are reference for another plate with snails. Too bad the nature lab didn't have some wooly mammoths I could check out for reference.

Prairie Sharks

 

 Sixth and final state.

A Shrub.

Second state.

first state: Prairie Sharks.

One of several drypoint plates I am currently developing. In its first state you can see the shark fins developing as they circle a brightly lit rock in a field of wave-like grass.

 

If the rock looks familiar, that's because the red rock in the previous drawing is cut and pasted directly from the sketch for this plate.

Old plate, new print.

This is one of the first etchings I made, but I never documented a print and didn't keep any around, so last week I cleaned off the plate and pulled a new proof, this time with a slightly brownish ink.

printmaking artist's statement

Rocks.
I have always liked rocks. I liked rocks even before I liked drawing. These drawings are about rocks. More simply, these drawings are about the formal relationship of one line to another. Rocks embody that most basic formal pairing. Rocks have bleached sides and dark. Broken edges and whole. Weathered and earthen. The ways to describe a rock with line are endless, and so I draw rocks, because I like making lines.

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Printmaking Seminar.

This one is my favorite. See if you can spot the pile of rocks.

Printmaking Seminar.

Printmaking Seminar