Prints | maryswann

The Horse Dance series is a project having to do with dynamic layering. Aquatint is added on top of an etched line drawing, then an unrelated transparent shape of colored paper is added on top of both. For fun, I tried a second version of each with an added layer of similarly colored aquatint instead of paper.

Etching with aquatint, 8" x 6", 2019	Etching with aquatint and chine collé, 8" x 6", 2019	Etching with aquatint, 8" x 6", 2019
Etching with aquatint and chine collé, 8" x 6", 2019	Etching with aquatint, 8" x 6", 2019	Etching with aquatint and chine collé, 8" x 6", 2019
Etching with aquatint and chine collé, 2019	Etching with aquatint, 8" x 6", 2019

This is a selection of recent black and white prints using varying materials and techniques

Tigress II, intaglio and monoprint, 10" x 18", 2019	Boy with Wet Hair, etching, 6" x 6", 2019	Descent II, etching with open bite and aquatint, 8" x 6", 2019
Race, etching, 2" x 6", 2019	Soccer Boy, intaglio and open bite, 4" x 6", 2019	Descent, etching, 8" x 6", 2019
In the Dark, aquatint, 15" x 12", 2016	Starlit Fence, collograph, 11" x 15 1/2", 2018	Bunny, aquatint, 7" x 5", 2015
Nightime Graze, collogaph, 17" x 23", 2018	Winter Apparition, collogaph, 17" x18", 2018

These prints that were made using several different printmaking techniques--intaglio with soft grounds and soap ground, lithograph, and collograph--have all been printed over varying shapes of colored paper, called "chine collé".