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| Man Among the Palms 5.75×5 collagraph with colored pencil sold |
Available in my Etsy Shop
I made the plate for this print 5 years ago, while experimenting with the abstract effects of layered construction paper on collagraphs. I have two new collagraphs using this same process in the studio now, and it’s always interesting to see how work evolves, and skitters off into new directions when you repeat a process enough to get familiar with it’s potential.
I added a tint of color to this black ink print with colored pencil, buffed into the paper to give it a soft, expressionistic look. The process shots begin at the bottom of this post, and more details about building collagraphs like this can be found in previous posts here, here and here.
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| Man Among the Palms in scale |
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| The collagraph print before adding color |
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| The collagraph plate, inked, lightly wiped and ready to print |
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| Detail of the collagraph plate |
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| The collagraph plate with details of layered paper and incised lines |
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Made from scrap mat board and kid-grade construction paper,
cut, layered and adhered/sealed with Liquitex Gloss Medium Varnish |
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| The collagraph plate under construction |
Art Quote
It is unfortunate that [Degas’] execution is always so inadequate & that his taste leads him to the bizarre or ugly, rather than the graceful. He has an unfortunate weakness for pink-skirted dancers and yawning laundresses. Unhappily, Degas does not have the eye of a colorist nor always the hand of a draftsman. ~C. Bigot,critic from La Revue Politique et Litteraire 1876
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Love this. Super work.
xoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoBarbara
@Diane – I’d love to see your torn paper plates…. are they on your blog? And yes, I caught the Mr Bigot name too. He must have been blind as well. 🙂
I particularly like his head.I sometimes use torn printing paper in my plates.
And I note that the scathing comment about Degas is from a Mr.Bigot. Perhaps his name made him such a curmudgeon?