Prints- a lesson and a look

This piece is called Fad-E. It is a print. For those of you who don't know what that means, to make a print, I start with a copper plate and engrave with a needle the image I want. I then cover the plate with ink and then put a piece of paper over top of it and run it through a press. This transfers the image from the plate to the paper, like screen printing for T-Shirts. That is called drypoint. There are other ways, like hardground, where you put wax over the plate, then carve into the wax, then you etch the plate in acid and it etches wherever you carved. The technique I used for Fad-E is called Aquatint. This means that I put a powder, called rosin, onto the plate and then I melt it onto the plate and then etch the plate. To get different shades of gray, you etch it for different amounts of time. The darker you want, the longer you etch it for. To stop it etching in a certain place, you cover that spot with red stop out. That 'stops out' that spot so the acid can't etch it anymore. The red and white circle were created by a process called Chine Cole, prononuced sheen cole a. It is where you put a piece of paper onto the plate with glue so as you run it through the press it is glued onto the paper. The red circles were made by this. The white circle was made by doing the same thing, but without the glue so it came off, leaving the white circle.

I named this print Fad-E because the red circles are fading into the squares, and also the squares are like a fad, and they are trying to follow the fad. I had also been watching a lot of Wall-E. :)


This print is called Moo. It started out very different from this, but ended up this way and I love it. To create the white dots, the stars, I put a aquatint on it, with something called Lump Rosin. This is the same stuff as normal rosin, but it is in big lumps. I drypointed the cow. The ink is called Brunt Sepia, I used it instead of normal black.
This print is called Princess Pea. It is drypoint. This is one of my first prints, it was very fun to do. I wanted to tell the story without showing the whole story. I wanted to create something I could put in my kids room, like a book on a wall kinda thing. I really love this print, I made lots because I think it is so cute.


This one is like the 1st one, it is called Stand Out, because the red circle stands out against the gray squares. This is also an aquatint with Chine Cole. This is really my first aquatint and also my first abstract artwork. It was very fun and I am continuing in the abstract area. It is fun, because you are not influencing people by what the art work is about, but influencing how they feel, you are creating a feeling for them.

All of these prints are 5X7 with about 2 inches of paper around them. Let me explain about the numbers on the bottom left hand corner. All prints are numbered because each print is a unique work of art, even though they are all supposed to look the same. When you make a lot of prints, it is called an Edition. The prints are numbered as a fraction, like 3/5, which means that print is the 3rd in an edition of 5. All my prints are numbered, titled and signed by me, which makes them official prints.

Now you have not only been looking at my artwork, but you have had a lesson in printmaking! You can click on each of these pictures to see bigger. They have all been scanned.

These prints are for sale for $10 each. I can mail them, with the additional cost of shipping. There is a limited amount available, so email me now! Please email me with any questions, and thanks for looking!