available etchings
Dear friend,
If you are interested in purchasing something, call me. I have some framed versions and some unframed ones. I no longer own an etching press, but a world-class professional printmaker lives across the arroyo; he can complete the edition.
All of these are available, some will need to be printed and colored.The colors on my etchings are hand-painted, instead of having corresponding plates for each color. I tried heart and soul to do that in the beginning. And, I am in awe of the masters who have succeeded. However, I gave it up to get the color I wanted more easily with an acrylic wash.
There are more, I just haven’t taken the time to put them up here on the website. At some point, I will ink the plates one last time, wipe away the excess, and let it stay on the plate. There’s a beauty to that state as much as in the print on paper.
You Want Me to Do WHAT?
w8″ x h8″ etching with aquatint, hand colored
Available – may need to be printed and colored.
People often think a horse, or any creature, ought not to have a say in what the “trainer” wants them to do. I’m finding it’s a lot more fun to let them have a say in the process. The results are more full of energy and happiness. No matter how we try, it takes time to explain a movement to a horse, or dancer, until they understand what you want them to do. Sometimes there are little arguments, hopefully never large ones. Once you both get it, beauty!
There’s a BUG in My Soup
w6’ x h8″ etching with aquatint, hand colored available may need to be printed and colored.
Oh my, how we respond to events affects the environment around us! This is a bit of a Buddhist take on things. The effect of our responses on those in the room with us.
"Ahh, Here’s a Bug in My Soup."
w6’ x h8″ etching with aquatint, hand colored – available- may need to be printed and colored.
How nice it is to have a loving calm response to the bug situation.
Slow Motion
w6’ x h5 etching with aquatint, hand colored – available- may need to be printed and colored.
My first etching! I was thrilled, it was so much fun to do, I loved everything about the process; from preparing the plate, coating it, drawing lines, playing around
with the tones with a process called aquatinting, dipping it in the acid for just the right amount of time, running it through the press, seeing the image come up on the other side, carefully pulling the blankets off, and the wonderful heavy paper up, to see how it turned out.
Watching the Eclipse
w6’ x h8″ etching with aquatint, hand colored – available- may need to be printed and colored.
I was out for a walk in a park one day, unaware that an eclipse was happening. Two young girls on their bicycles road by. One was holding out her hand in a
loose fist, she said in a petulant way, ” I just don’t get the thing about using our hand to watch the eclipse!” I had my sketchbook with me and held my hand over it similarly to how she had been holding hers. There was a partial circle of bright light on the page! I looked down and saw the same shape repeated under the trees. Every normally round spot of sunlight becomes a crescent as the eclipse progresses, fantastic!
