Rag & Bone
A journey through printmaking
The “Perilous Journey” was my first foray into the world of printing found wood. It was at a weekend workshop by Walt Padgett of Grants Pass, OR and we each had a partner to work with. The object was to come up with a composition using the scraps of wood or wood by-products that Walt had brought with him. My partner and I got a pretty good start, but nothing worth keeping, so he sent me home with the print. Hating to see good paper go to waste I started printing more wood from our scrap heap (we were remodeling at the time and had an ongoing supply source,) I started with a background of pale blue and worked my way North finishing with the opaque white: the only pigment which was not pure transparent watercolor mixed with methylcellulose, is the white gouache. All of the pigments were applied with brushes and printed by hand with a Baren. (Except for the background - it was printed on the press.) There were 5 colors, but twice that many drops to get the darker colors. When all was said and done I thought it looked like a rough sea and the break-up of a sailing vessel - and since there is a rectangle in it..... Well, that is the background of the title. I make no excuses!
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Monday, July 30, 2007
The Perilous Journey of the Wrecked Angle
Bare Bones Art - the studio of Sharri LaPierre
