Haverhill

Making Marks – moving forward

2010, combined techniques, Haverhill / /

Today I worked between several different pieces just making marks. I try to let the judgments and negative conversations in my head just roll off. Today I got a newsy email from the Massaschusetts Cutural Council about events and deadlines. It gets me thinking about applying for grants and other ways to bring in some money in this field of art.
I have been tossing around the idea of combining my images, plates and things. I think I just have to do it and see what happens – stop thinking about doing it. This week I made 4 or 5  plates. How could I combine or print them into a complete expression? www.linda-germain.com

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Prints, Puppies and Discovery

2010, Haverhill, mixed media printmaking, relief prints / /

It was a fine day on the farm today. I worked on cleaning perenials for the winter. This drawing of Kip has been evolving over the last few weeks. It is fun to work on it as the moment moves – or as she moves. I do like these colors. I played with the idea of self-portraits and simple printing plates. I did a very quick sketch. I cropped the image to fit on to the plate, and then transferred the image to a styrofoam plate. I think this will be a great process from the class that I will be teaching at the Newburyport Art Association this winter. It is fast, flexible and satisfying. For this process less is more and gesture drawing work wonderfully. You can experiment with colored papers, multiple ink colors, masking certain areas and it is so fast and easy that you could make several plates from one drawing depending on how you crop it. I am hopeful that the kids with like it as much as I do. I have tried printing these plates as intaglio plates and have varied results. I think that I will try this with the presses at New Hampshire Institute of Art next friday. http://www.linda-germain.com/

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Series of Monotype Prints – Paper Doll Dresses

2010, combined techniques, Haverhill, mixed media printmaking / /


I am getting ready for a workshop on Composing the Print at the Artists’ Playground in Newburyport, MA. So I am working with a new piece of gelatin and I made some fun stencils of a paper doll dress. I modified the basic stencil with stitching, salt, wire mesh, and thread. It was fun to work up this series of small gelatin prints.
Check out the video of the small dresses.

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"She Moved IV" – painting goes on

2010, Haverhill, mixed media printmaking / /

This drawing/painting was reworked. It evolved and got cropped. I kept trying something new. Going Darker, going lighter, adding texture, trying a new medium. You would not think that Kip, the dog moves that much, but she does. She looks pretty sleepy and that she is too. I found that charcoal over oil pastel causes the charcoal to stick to the pastel and stand out. www.linda-germain.com

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