Category: Prints and Printmaking
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William H. Hays
William H. Hays is a printmaker who works in linocut and woodblock color printmaking methods. These involve either multiple blocks or a reduction process, in which additional areas of the block are cut away for each successive application of color. There is a blog post on his website that describes his process, and a short…
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Eye Candy for Today: JMW Turner etching and mezzotint
The Woman and Tambourine (Liber Studiorum, part I, plate 3), Joseph Mallord William Turner and Charles Turner, etching and mezzotint, roughly 7 x 11″ (21 x 29 cm). In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art This was one of the prints Turner created for a 70 plate “book of studies”, he published in…
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Eye Candy for Today: Eugène Bléry etching
L’arbre aux racines (Tree with Roots), Eugène Bléry, etching on chine collé, roughly 5×7″ (11 x 16 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC, which haas both zoomable and downloadable versions of the image. A wonderful evocation of a deep forest scene, showing the effectiveness of just value and texture to…
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Oleg Denisenko (revisited)
Oleg Denisenko is a Ukrainian printmaker, painter, calligrapher and sculptor who I first featured in 2007, and again in 2012. His wonderfully eccentric subjects center on figures with elaborate costumes, intricately detailed an accompanied by a range of curious objects. He plays with proportion and scale and varying degrees of exaggeration. Denisenko appears to vary…
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Eye Candy for Today: Francis Seymour Hayden etching
The Lovers’ Walk, No. 1, Francis Seymour Hayden, etching and drypoint, roughly 9 x 13″ (23 x34 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, look for both download and zoom links under the image. This deceptively simple etching by the British painter and printmaker (active in the late 19th and early 20th…
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Some early work by M.C. Escher
Many people are aware of the graphic work of Dutch printmaker M.C. Escher that bends logic and presents mind-boggling visions of impossible worlds and structures. Fewer have seen many of his earlier works, that are much more straightforward and “possible” (if sometimes fanciful). Here are a few examples. For more images and info, see my…