Printmaking

2022

Moonlit Kisses

Akua ink, tag board, and glue all

Collagraph print of a sun and moon sneaking a kiss created out of tag board and glued together with glue all.

Peach of Life

Akua Ink, tag board, and glue all

Matiss inspired peach collagraph print created out of tag board and glued together with glue all.

Primavera

Linoleum, block printing ink, and varied paper

A lino print where there is a dancing star woman who is surrounded by a wreath of leaves.

Tracking of the Turtles series

Linoleum, block printing ink, and paper

Created with the intent to spark the question of sea turtle tracking. The reasons why we do it, how we do it, and whether or not it harms the turtle or the ocean. Each turtle has it's own path/trail behind him.

Shown above: Sketch plan of The Lion and Princess Dandy

The Lion and Princess Dandy

Plexiglass, akua ink, and mixed media paper

Plexiglass etched with an etching tool to create a narrative scene of a princess (who also happened to be a fairy) hiding from a house cat after being seen picking dandelions.

Shown above: Demonstration of dry point process progress

Mono print studies

Gellied Jellies

Blue akua ink on paper

Mono print of a jellyfish see world

Xray of the Jellies

Blue akua ink on paper

Mono print of a clearer jellyfish sea world

In the Forest Series

Green Akua ink and black ink on paper

I bought a cheap 75 sheet sketchbook with the intention to fill every page with a mono print. I went around my yard, surrounding trails, multiple stores, and even the potted plants outside of my work to collect different leaves and flowers. I wanted to experiment with the idea of composition and how the reveals of every print would have different contrasts and different ways it would be harmonious.

Created to match the poem "Sleeping in the Forest" by Mary Oliver. This is one of my favorite poems and I love the descriptions of nature, I thought that this was a good way to incorporate my style and usage of plants within nature. I stamped the first four lines on 4 of my monoprints.

I have picked the few that I think came out the best to represent the work that I have done for this series, shown is the blocked and the revealed mate.

Sleeping in the Forest (1)

The first line of the poem stamped to say, "I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly,"

Created with peach tree leaves, leather leaf ferns, baby's breath flowers, and white clover flowers.

Sleeping in the forest (2)

The second line of the poem stamped to say, "Arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds"

Created with asparagus ferns, baby's breath flowers, and white clover flowers.

Sleeping in the Forest (3)

The third line of the poem stamped to say, "I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed."

Created with baby's breath, and tire fishing net.

Sleeping in the forest (4)

The fouth line of the poem stamped to say, "Nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees."

Created with leather leaf ferns.

Vulnerability

Created with a tore fishing net.

Leather Leaves

Created with leather leaf ferns.

Buttercups & Spores

Created with buttercup flowers, baby's breath flowers, and leather leaf ferns.

(You can see the pollen that mixed with the akua ink!)

Focus

Created with Boston fern leaves, and leather leaf ferns.

Sun

Created with Boston fern leaves, and leather leaf ferns.

Spiral

Created with asparagus ferns, baby's breath flowers, and white clover flowers.

Shown above: Process of creating monoprints, Focus, and Sun.

Pink + White

Based on Frank Ocean's lyrics from his song Pink + White, "If you could die and come back to life, up for air from the swimming pool, you'd kneel down to the dry land kiss the earth that birthed you"

Created with Boston fern leaves.