Name: Andrea Starkey
Location: U.S.A.
Title: “Last Years Grasses” Fine Art Linocut Reproduction
Price : $90
Size: 3″ x 9″
Prints: 12 Limited Editions Prints Available
Medium: hand pulled reduction linocut, oil on HANDMADE paper
Artist web site: http://www.starkeyart.com/
http://www.starkeyart.blogspot.com/
http://www.etsy.com/shop/starkeyart
Link to Purchase page : http://starkeyart.com/words.html
From Andrea :
I’ve blogged about the making of this print HERE and HERE.
The design is good, the colors are great, but the execution is flawed…there are stray printing marks outside the print area and some within as well. Love the print but can’t stand the imperfections.
7 responses so far ↓
1 Vikki // Aug 14, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Hi Andrea,
Welcome to your first Challenge! This is really beautiful. What you state as imperfections the rest of us cant see. I’m blown away that this is ‘handmade paper’ and your whole process. Just outstanding. I would love to get you into Dante’s Pub to talk about how you create these prints.
I love the three as a set as you have shown on this blog- http://starkeyart.blogspot.com/2009/03/last-years-grasses-finished.html
Really extraordinary!
2 Rusty // Aug 15, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Beautiful!
I look forward to you sharing more with us in the in the Pub.
3 Andrea // Aug 16, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Thanks for the comments! Most printmakers are perfectionists, it’s like some kind of curse. One stray mark in the wrong place or outside the margins and the print is ruined. But is it really? This one looks pretty good with the margins covered up with mat board to me.
Oh…for clarification on the handmade paper…I don’t make it, it comes from Japan. There are families who have been making it for generations, passing down the tradition. Each family’s paper is different. Cool stuff. This type of printmaking is also based on traditional Japanese techniques.
About the different colors…when you hand pull an edition every print is supposed to be the same, but I like playing with ink too much for that!
4 Sonya Meglaurel // Aug 17, 2010 at 6:22 am
So glad you joined us Andrea. Find migrate to the implied highlights of the “frond” sunlight. Knowing that you cut each of these into wood blocks am in love with the process.
5 Lisa // Aug 17, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Theres is nothing imperfect about this piece. I love it!
6 Ray Shuell // Aug 19, 2010 at 8:49 am
I have to agree with Vikki one hundred percent. So many works are produced and subsequently rejected because of what the painter sees as imperfections, elements that others are totally unaware of as they view a beautiful picture. Perhaps the “imperfections” as you see them, are there for a reason. Beautiful!
7 Gail Allen // Aug 22, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Andrea, welcome! The use of color in this piece, as well as the organic feel is lovely. Very beautiful!
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