And After Dinner We’d Walk our Dog and Talk to Ghosts
$1,300.00
My husband campaigned hard to shorten the title of this work, but I dug in my heels. There is a story there, a specific feeling. The winter, the night walks, the dog, the ghosts. I used stencils to have some shapes fixed and reliable, but I also used stencils in reverse (as negative shapes that prevent the ink from reaching the plate) to create the washed out, indistinct shapes of the ghostly structure on the left to invoke the unreliable, barely seen. One of the figures is caught in between. It was so much Fun making this monotype, it involved risk and mastery, play and calculation – a perfect mixture. The result is a unique feeling of a winter night.
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My husband campaigned hard to shorten the title of this work, but I dug in my heels. There is a story there, a specific feeling. The winter, the night walks, the dog, the ghosts. I used stencils to have some shapes fixed and reliable, but I also used stencils in reverse (as negative shapes that prevent the ink from reaching the plate) to create the washed out, indistinct shapes of the ghostly structure on the left to invoke the unreliable, barely seen. One of the figures is caught in between. It was so much Fun making this monotype, it involved risk and mastery, play and calculation – a perfect mixture. The result is a unique feeling of a winter night.
Monotype is a printmaking method, where an image is created (essentially painted on the plexiglass plate) to be then printed on the piece of paper – only once. Unlike etching or woodcuts or lithography there are no multiples, monotype is a unique image.
There are many ways to make a monotype and many different styles. I specialize in the more traditional way – creating light by wiping the ink off the plate with rags, brushes and Q-tips.
Every medium has its own pressures, limitations and strengths. The strength of monotypes is in creating a sense of light, an atmosphere, gestural qualities, but it does not accommodate precise details easily. You have a limited time to create your piece, the thin layer of printmaking ink dries within a couple of hours; at the end of your working session, you either print it or lose it, you cannot come back to it.
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| Weight | .68 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 36.5 × 2.54 × 66.04 in |
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