Sedona Prints

These are three of my Sedona prints.  The middle is printed with etching ink only and the others have ink with a watercolor washes added afterwards.  I find that printmaking paper holds up very well to multiple washed of color.

Astrolabes

Greenwich Observatory has a lovely collection of astrolabes.  They are astronomical instruments that were used by navigators to calculate the positions of the sun, the moon and the stars.  One in particular, an intricate brass piece, caught my eye.  I drew it and created a block print out of the drawing.  The print is at the center of these three collages that I made on heavy weight paper, using gold paper strips and acrylic paint

Pen & Ink

This is one of the first pen and ink drawings that I finished after I began studying art at U.C. Irvine.  It was the late 1970's and I think that era is reflected in the drawing.   I did allot of these intricate "profile" images.  This one is probably the weirdest.

Etching and Watercolors

OctypussEtch

I love both etching and watercolor so lately,  I have been combining them.  This is a drawing that I did of a California red octopus on display at the Hatfield Marine Research Center, in Newport Oregon.  The octopus was plastered to the side of the tank.  I transferred the drawing to a copper plate, etched it and applied a spray paint aquatint to give it the sandy background. 

Lithography

PlaceSettingLitho

I have not had access to a lithography studio since 1982 so this is the one and only print I have ever made.  It was fun to draw on the stone and ink it up.  I call it "Place Setting".