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Printmakers and Printmaking

A group to showcase traditional forms of hand printmaking from Etching to Linocut, from Silkscreen to Collagraph.

Featured Work

Etching - Viewing reconstruction of Ground Zero by Marion Chapman

Zinc plates Bit of collage added to the foreground – articles about 9/11
Lawn Party by Natasha Harsh

I was born in a WWII German forced labor camp,which,when the war ended, was converted to a DP(dispalced person)camp by the Americans. This group including my grandfather,pictured sitting with both hands behind his head, were friends based on their shared WWII experiences/history. / Watercoloured etching from an old photo of family friends imbibing on my parents lawn in Princeton,NJ. I took the photo, created an etching and watercolored a couple variations as one of a kind artist’s proofs. This etching is also known by some (in Yiddish) as the “Alter Cockers”. Paper used was BFK Reeves.
The Camp,Yosemite by Natasha Harsh

Aquatint etching of Yosemite Park workers gathered after hours. From a photo taken by my husband when he worked in the park as a young man.If you want to know more about the technique used for my etchings,please read my posting in the works on paper forum.
Twenty-One by Natasha Harsh

Aquatint etching from a photo of myself on my 21st birthday at my grandmother’s house. If you want to know more about my technique used for my etchings,please read my posting in the works on paper forum.
Thoughts by Natalee

Etching, two plates. Both plates are hard ground.
Fish City IV by Tama Blough

Multiple plate hand-colored etching
Soul Unfolding by Gudrun Eckleben

Etching, zinc plate, soft ground, aquatint, red ink on textured handmade paper / Traditional printmaking / This is a mono / Created 2003 • Featured in Colour me a Rainbow (Colour Red) / • Top 10 in the Come up and see my Etchings Challenge / • Featured in Printmakers and Printmaking for the month of July 2009
' WAITING' - ETCHING/AQUATINT by ANNETTE HAGGER

Featured in the Fine Arts Influenced by Literature Group I SIT AND GAZE A WHILE…..... But to sit and gaze a while and think of you / and how………..... / and then……….... / and then……….... / to gaze a while and think of you / but this is now / and you’re not here / you are there / But I gaze a while and / think of you / of how it was, it is not now. / by Annette Hagger This etching/aquatint is a bench in the / Woodland Burial Ground in Norwich, Norfolk. People would sit on the bench before or after placing / flowers on their loved ones place of rest, the bench / seemed to be waiting for the next person to sit and / contemplate their thoughts and memories…............... Waiting’ is an etching/aquatint printed onto fine textured / thick Sommerset etching paper. ctual size of printed area is 6 x .4.5 inches / BEST VIEWED LARGER
Strata (final version) by brettus

Etching & aquatint on Stonehenge paper and recycled survey plan. / 72×36 cm. The final version of this print.
Tug by Mario Donk

The original is an etching made on copper plate using a variety of techniques. I used wax resist into which the work was drawn with a needle, aquatint, mezzotint. and some dry point work. The plate was then inked and carefully wiped clean making sure to leave lots of ink in the area of the ship otherwise it will print too light. / It is then hand pulled on an etching press. / The original prints are a limited edition of 100 / The idea and detail sketches where made at Newcastle harbor Australia, from this an etching and print where made
Floating dock by Mario Donk

A woodcut print based on a drawing made on location showing a ship in a floating dock, Newcastle Australia. The actual wood used was a ceder wooden roof shingle. The original design was painted with ink on thin layout paper, when dry it was pasted drawing face down on the wood with starch paste. Smoothed out flat and left to dry. Once dry you commence cutting the design, the paper being thin you can make out the black art through the back of the paper, if you can not then oil it with a little linseed oil and it will appear. The thin paper does two things, one it flips your design so that on printing the block the printed art is the same way around as the original ink drawing and two more importantly it holds the wood together very well and allows you to make close cuts across the grain without the parts braking out. Once completed take a sponge and wet the paper, the starch will wash away and your block is ready for inking if the ink is water based otherwise let it dry then roll it up with oil based ink.

Recent Work

An intaglio and relief print by djones

An intaglio type print with relief colour added – in Akua Inks – and based on a pen and ink drawing on acetate, done from one of my models
Writing

Everybody is so friendly and nice....…What if somebody doesn’t like my images?
Monotype Zucchini Leaves by Marion Chapman

Zucchini leaves are actually really large, about 45cm wide and about a metre long. I pressed a few leaves as the plant grows heaps of leaves in comparison to the fruit/vegetable. I then used these leaves to create this monotype and plenty of other monotypes. This one seemed to have the most action happening in the design. Unique State / Printed on watercolour paper – Arches 300gsm
Diva - B by adamkissel

Lino print on collage
Diva - A by adamkissel

Lino Print on collage.
Meditating Cat and Moon in yellow by Hemalata

Memories of my fat ginger cat! / Lino print in black ink on yellow paper with hand coloured touches in ink.
Meditating Cat and Moon by Hemalata

Lino print. Design inspired by several large ginger cats I know!
Sunflower by TangerineMeg

Happy sunflower homage to Van Gogh in the form of as a reduction block lino print. I like looking at the edges where you can see the cyan and magenta overlapping imperfectly, and the colours zing!
Sunflower by TangerineMeg

Bold in colour and shape, this sunflower design makes you feel warm and bright, inside.
Chanticleer & Lady Pertelote by Mellissa Read-Devine

From the original linocut print, handcoloured with watercolour, printed onto Somerset Paper.
Horse by sonnet

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About This Group

This group is a platform to display, challenge and discuss our works.

Traditional printmakers images are not produced using a laser, or ink jet printer. They are painstaking produced from a hand crafted plate, or screen and pressed or screed by hand. This is what makes our group unique!

This group showcases traditional forms of printmaking from Etching to Linocut, from Screenprint to Collagraph. We also welcome experimental forms of printmaking where the print has been produced primarily by hand.

To this end could you please include your printmaking technique in the description of your image to validate it as a hand created artwork.

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This weeks Group Avatar is Lawn Party by Natasha Harsh