Today I began to work on a series that I've had on my mind for some time. Back in June, when I was teaching a printmaking workshop at Ciel Gallery, I stumbled into some landscape imagery using cheesecloth as a printing texture. I was monoprinting - rolling ink onto a flat plexiglass plate and using torn paper stencils to mask areas of the plate, then printing layers of different colors onto each piece of paper.
I love the way the cheesecloth suggests clouds and how the different shapes and colors mimic the Blue Ridge Mountains on the horizon. The prints remind me of the happy week my family spent in Spruce Pine, NC last summer. We stayed in a crazy, funky, round house, perched on the side of a steep mountain. The cabin was minimal but the view out of the curved 180 degree window was amazing. Mt. Mitchell was right there in our living room!
Tomorrow I will add more colors and more mountains. And I will remember the smiles on top of Mt. Mitchell.
I love the way the cheesecloth suggests clouds and how the different shapes and colors mimic the Blue Ridge Mountains on the horizon. The prints remind me of the happy week my family spent in Spruce Pine, NC last summer. We stayed in a crazy, funky, round house, perched on the side of a steep mountain. The cabin was minimal but the view out of the curved 180 degree window was amazing. Mt. Mitchell was right there in our living room!
Tomorrow I will add more colors and more mountains. And I will remember the smiles on top of Mt. Mitchell.
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