The fun part is creating the art. Playing around, setting challenges. Failure and success. You cannot have success without failure. Creating and experimenting is what I enjoy.
The second part is meeting and discussing with other artists and then showing your work. Feedback is important unless you have a very clear vision. Sometimes you do have a clear vision and other times not so much.
I started out carving a Lino of a Salmon. I got sick and when I picked it up again, my vision had changed so the middle looked very different from the head and the tail. I needed to re-carve it with the new vision.
The other Mad Printers helped clarify that for me. The parts they liked the parts they did not. So I re-carved. This time with a clear vision of what I needed to do. My first print was on blue banana fiber paper and was sold before it was printed to someone who saw my print on Instagram. My last piece of blue paper.
I grabbed the full sheets of Kozo and started cyanotyping backgrounds for more prints. If I had no blue, I would create more blue paper and each print would be on a unique background. I was able to successfully print another Coho on a cyanotyped Kozo background and it was displayed at the Print Club of Rochester Members show which opened the first Friday in June. It also sold before the show opened.
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This one will be on its way to Washington State when the show closes.
The Print Club of Rochester Show is open at the Bevier Gallery at RIT, James A. Booth Hall (7A) 75 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester NY 14623
It opened June 2nd and Closes August 5th.
Gallery Hours are M, T , Fri 10-5 and W-Th 10-7. Saturday 12-5.
Another Version of this print - also on Cyanotyped Kozo paper, cold wax medium is on display at the Flower City Art Center. The Mad Printers 2nd Annual Exhibition June 2 through July 28th. Artist Reception is Friday July 7th from 6-9 at the Sunken Room Gallery, Flower City Art Center, 713 Monroe Ave, Rochester NY 14607
The Mad Printers is a group of Printmakers who meet at the Flower City Art Center. These are the other artists who share and discuss the work we are doing. It is exciting to see what people are working on and the group is very friendly and helpful. Lots of good work in this show.
My least favorite part is matting and framing the work. This part I also am learning to do better as I continue forward.
Recently someone said my work is decorative. Well what is art if it is not used to decorate. Art is subjective. You like it or you don’t like it. You buy it to display in your home and decorate. Thus it is decorative.
My art has a focus on nature. I grew up fishing, swimming, sailing, paddling, later scuba diving. Fish live in the water. They are interesting and come in a variety of sizes and shapes. I have caught fresh water fish and salt water fish in many places. I used to fish in team tournaments and finished in the money a large number of times. I understand where they live, how they feed, their cycles. Once when scuba diving I saw a largemouth bass swallow a fairly big sunfish whole by inhaling it. They are an amazing part of our ecosystem.
I chose to do a Coho print because I find them on the shores of Lake Ontario as I walk the beach. They are in various stages of decay and they are very big. I think these are pretty fish and how they change as they go into spawn is amazing to me.
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This one will be on its way to Washington State when the show closes.
The Print Club of Rochester Show is open at the Bevier Gallery at RIT, James A. Booth Hall (7A) 75 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester NY 14623
It opened June 2nd and Closes August 5th.
Gallery Hours are M, T , Fri 10-5 and W-Th 10-7. Saturday 12-5.
Another Version of this print - also on Cyanotyped Kozo paper, cold wax medium is on display at the Flower City Art Center. The Mad Printers 2nd Annual Exhibition June 2 through July 28th. Artist Reception is Friday July 7th from 6-9 at the Sunken Room Gallery, Flower City Art Center, 713 Monroe Ave, Rochester NY 14607
The Mad Printers is a group of Printmakers who meet at the Flower City Art Center. These are the other artists who share and discuss the work we are doing. It is exciting to see what people are working on and the group is very friendly and helpful. Lots of good work in this show.
My least favorite part is matting and framing the work. This part I also am learning to do better as I continue forward.
Recently someone said my work is decorative. Well what is art if it is not used to decorate. Art is subjective. You like it or you don’t like it. You buy it to display in your home and decorate. Thus it is decorative.
My art has a focus on nature. I grew up fishing, swimming, sailing, paddling, later scuba diving. Fish live in the water. They are interesting and come in a variety of sizes and shapes. I have caught fresh water fish and salt water fish in many places. I used to fish in team tournaments and finished in the money a large number of times. I understand where they live, how they feed, their cycles. Once when scuba diving I saw a largemouth bass swallow a fairly big sunfish whole by inhaling it. They are an amazing part of our ecosystem.
I chose to do a Coho print because I find them on the shores of Lake Ontario as I walk the beach. They are in various stages of decay and they are very big. I think these are pretty fish and how they change as they go into spawn is amazing to me.
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