Cropduster

Crop Duster, 4’ x 7,’ printed on May 17, 2017 in 5 panels on Canson’s Moulin du Roy paper.  I wanted to get the circular motion of a crop duster who sprays, climbs, circles, descends and sprays again.  Because time was of the essence, I did preliminary and full-scale sketches for several weeks beforehand, getting each plane placed where I wanted.  I used these sketches as my pattern and painted the ink on plexi panels, before running each one through the press separately.  They are to be put together and exhibited as one image. 

An ongoing series dealing with three versions of landscape—the expanded field of vision, the intermediate field of vision and the close-up vision.  Each vision also contains representative examples of the four seasons.  Sometimes prints in different visions get the same name, even though they are different formats and vistas.  These prints are all reduction linocuts, usually using two blocks, one warm colors and one cool colors, and most contain from 8-15 different colors.  Most are in editions of 8 to 12.  All were printed from 2007 to 2017 on a Vandercook press at Studio 150 in Gordo, Alabama, when I have been a Visiting Artist there.

These collaged plates use scrap materials glued to cardboard, sealed, and printed with relief and etching inks on an etching press.  Some have art historical references, some landscape reference and some magical minimalism references.  Usually one object suggests a subject and I build the image off that.  Most are printed from one plate with both relief and intaglio inking, but larger ones use two plates on one piece of paper.