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Patterns and Symbols
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Patterns and Symbols by Amy Crook
These three tiny etching plates were hand inked and arranged to go through the printing press together, creating a one-of-a-kind print. Each etching plate is only an inch or an inch and a half square, the images floating in the center of the white page.
The top plate was painstakingly inked so that each aquatinted curl of “smoke” got its own colour, and then the two subsequent plates — both etchings with added aquatint — were inked with the same colors to complement the first. Together the three separate decorative motifs give a different meaning and presentation than any one piece would singly.
Patterns and Symbols, 8″x12″ etching on watercolor paper, $299 with free shipping.
Patterns and Symbols, detail, by Amy Crook
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Daily Art
Tags: etching, for sale
WIP: Molten Sun
Monday, July 5th, 2010
Molten Sun, work in progress detail, by Amy Crook
After finishing Molten Sky, I hung it up in my apartment to dry, and slowly got an idea for ways to make the single idea into a series. This is the second one, also 24″ square. For a long time it looked like it had a bite out of it and made me crave Oreos, but now I’ve finally got the metallic copper, bronze and gold filled in the “bite.” I’m not quite sure how I’m going to finish it off, but for now it’s drying in the same spot the other one occupied, where I can look up and see it and contemplate.
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Daily Art, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of, Works In Progress
Tags: amber, oil painting, work in progress
Dichotomies
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Dichotomies, 4″x6″ etchings on watercolor paper
This print uses two small etching plates together in composition. The large plate was a piece of the same found plate from yesterday’s art, and the small plate is one of my series of smaller plates for use in larger pieces, which you can see was inked in two different colors and printed over the darker plate. I’m more pleased with the final result on this one, I think, but I like the contrast between the two pieces.
You can see how the natural deckle edge from a larger sheet of watercolor paper forms the bottom, where the hand-torn edges give character to the other three sides. I was always a bit careless about the process of breaking down the bigger sheets, so this, like many of my prints, isn’t really a perfect rectangle.
Because of the way the composition was created out of several different hand-inked and hand-placed plates, it’s one of a kind.
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Daily Art
Tags: etching, for sale, small plates
Untitled Print 1
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Untitled Print 1, 4″x6″ etchings on watercolor paper
This print uses three small etching plates together in composition. The large plate was a bit of found art — a larger piece left behind by some other artists and cut up into intriguing shapes with no real connection to the original composition. The two smaller plates were part of a series of little, reusable etching plates I made by hand.
I have another print like this that I’ll post tomorrow, which uses a different portion of the found plate and another of the small plates in a similar manner.
Because of the way the composition was created out of several different hand-inked and hand-placed plates, it’s one of a kind.
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Daily Art
Tags: etching, for sale, small plates
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