After my tutorial I started researching some print artists. I thought about our print and surface lectures, and specifically about Maija Louekari's Hetkai. The sketchy-line overlay used here would work well with the movement sketches I have done...more drawings perhaps to play with?
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| Hetkai |
Kathy had suggested that I look at Hockney's tree paintings...they're enormous! I don't think I'll be working that big just yet!?
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| Bigger Trees Near Water, 2007 |
Suzanne Manns exhibition The Truth About Trees popped up in my search. I was interested by her abstraction and overlay style
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| Dead of Winter |
Paula Zinsmeister had some interesting ways with collage and print
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| Tree Angels |
An article on Mbuti women and barkcloth brought up this interesting print
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| Mbuti Bark Cloth |
These bold composition paintings by Cara Enteles are just brilliant! Not 'prints' as such but the perspective and use of line and colour is great. Just what I need to be thinking about too...
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| Powerline Tree 4 |
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| Tree After Magenta |
Bryan Nash Gill creates these prints from real tree bark
I also discovered this brilliant blog on printmaking too - a very inspiring read!
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| love the movement in this print by Margret Barnard |
I then went out to draw some more trees, and noticed that I was paying more attention to perspective, abstraction and line/surface detail.
