This is a series of prints I made over the winter. It includes mainly drypoint etchings, but also explorations into a variety of other techniques. The prints mainly are based on photographs I took while studying abroad in Italy during the Fall.
View from Paestum. My drypoints were done with nods to Piranesi.
View within Scarpa's addition to the Brion Cemetery, Treviso. Green paint was added to this print, though the other prints omit this.
View within Scarpa's addition to Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice.
View from Scarpa's addition to the Brion Cemetery, Treviso.
Second print, with higher contrast.
Third print. I cleaned the plate more, and tried to include a small figure in a nod to Piranesi (at the base of the righthand front column).
Second print. I tried to clean the plate particularly in the middle.
First print. The interior came out too dark for what I was going for.
First print.
Second print. I cleaned the plate more.
First print. Came out too dark (you can see especially in the ceiling marks from the tarlatan).
Third print. Overcompensated and cleaned the plate too much.
Experimental monoprint, made by painting with the printing ink. View of the statue of the Archangel Michael on top of the Castel Sant'angelo, Rome.
Early print. Another view from Paestum.
Experiment with drypoint and layers of color (ghost print).
Experiment with drypoint and layers of color.
Experiment with masks and stencils. Another view from Paestum.
Experimental monoprint. Ghost print on the left and original on the right.
Stencil of Mario's hat. Reprinted 15 times for an exchange portfolio.
Experiment with embossment.
Experimental monoprint with additive printing.
