So it’s official-I’ve been bitten by the printmaking bug. This is not to suggest that I am good at it or that I am always (or even often) happy with the finished product. It’s just the endless possibilities and the ability to work with photographs.
Photography was my first love at the ripe age of 14 when my father bought me a Canon AE-1 for my birthday. And now that we have “cellular devices” I snap pictures anytime I am walking and see something interesting and may want to paint later.
Just this morning, I took several photographs of bridges in Rock Creek Parkway as I commuted to work. I plan to make what is called “gum prints” with them after I merge them into one image using Photoshop…prints to follow.
In the meantime, these are the finished works from the Detroit bridges…
Three colors-cyan, magenta and black (the "key") were used for this work:
The following are single color prints:
Same print with 2 more layers of information...the birds (because it's Venice) were added first by running it through the printing press and then text-a quote from Leonardo da Vinci was added last. This process always calls for a prayer, fingers & toes crossed in hopes that their is not a glitch any of the many steps. It worked!
