foam print (water-based block ink) / hand printed original sold 2007 edition of 1
lino cut edition of 6 / 2008 i wanted it pretty clean…. took a while / press print
woodcut edition of 3 reduction print / hand printed
death made more honorable by suicide to avoid being captured, tortured and questioned linoleum cut reductive print (work in progress) says in red: hara kiri honor
Medium: oil based ink & acrylic on 640gsm Arches Rag Paper / Technique: Painting, linoprinting with one colour & three design plates. Symbolism – Heart as vessel for ‘Where Spirit Resides’ series of work – part of the work development in my recent solo exhibition. Elevating the Spirit Exhibition 2007 Toured (Selected) Main Space, Umbrella Studio, Townsville April 24 – May 31, 2009. / / 27.10.09 FEATURED in Printmakers and Printmaking / / and Runner-Up in Printmakers and Printmaking Challenge Hot and Hold
A lithograph with etchings printed over the top on Japanese paper
Carborundum Print – Artists Proof / Carborundum Printing / – Board covered in black sand / – Layers of watered pva glue added / – when inking plate – where there is just sand will be black. layers of pva will produce greys through to whites dependent on thickness of layer Somerset Paper
Three coloured lino print on rice paper.
Solar plate – intaglio / Somerset 280gsm
Drypoint / Unique state / Relief inked; multilayers with stencils Velin Arches 280gsm / 56 X 76cm First time i have printed in multilayers with a sheet of paper held under the press roller – the way the professional custom printers print apparently to ensure that the registration is perfect. Although mine wasn’t perfect, i learnt lots about how to do it next time.
Zinc etching / Aquatint (I am getting so much better at aquatint, yeh!!) / Viscosity printing – two colours: blue with yellow on top / BFK Rives 280gsm – such a good solid reliable paper Did this one just for practice at aquatint.
Etching
Etching on zinc plate, which was covered in bitumen. Acid bath. / Created in 1972 during my studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule der Stadt Zurich, Switzerland. / The type was handset in German and we printed that too to accompany our illustrations. / This etching was the 2nd version of this particular scene. From a series of 5 etchings. / Size: a bit smaller than A4.
Etching. / First in a series of 5 illustrating “The Sleeping Beauty” 1972 done during my studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule der Stadt Zurich, Switzerland. / The text is: “The queen wished for a child. The frog jumped out of the water and said to her: “Within the year you shall give birth to a daughter.” / We handset the type (in German) and printed it too.
Etching and Aquatint. / Limited pull of 12 prints due to fragility of aquatint, which starts to disintegrate after the 12th pull. / Was featured as my best piece to date in the 2008 publication by ALMA in Sydney, NSW on p42-43 of “Australian Latvian Artists” under my full name Ilze Coombe. When I did this series of 5 etchings my name was Ilze Strautins. / We also handset the type that went with our story and printed on watercolour paper.
Love working with lino! The cutting, the printing, the whole process is just so much fun! / This linocut print is also available in higher resolution as a print, and there’s a couple of versions available as t-shirts.
They say if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em and seeing all the tee shirts being sold on here, I thought it was about time I joined the band, so I have set up a new profile just for my tees. Please feel free to take a peek. WalkerTouchTees
Etching print (chine colle). Colour overlay in photoshop. Based on a drawing by Kathe Kollwitz.
The Ferry Artists’ / Members Extravaganza / Please join The Ferry Artists for refreshments on / Sunday 22nd November / 2.30pm – 5pm / Exhibition continues through to September The Ferry Artists Gallery / Old Northern Road / Wisemans Ferry / Ph: 02 4566 4385 Hours: 10am – 5pm Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday
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Silk Screen Print with Photo Emulsion.
This is a zinc plate relief etching. It was deeply bitten in nitric acid for a long period of time creating a basrelief effect; then I inked the raised surface of the plate with hard rubber brayers. / Thus it is a relief print much like a woodcut or linocut… except that the negative space of the imagery was etched rather than cut away.

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