Conjunction - Limited Edition 7 of 12 Print

Coming home from a late night sculpture session a few years ago, I got out of the car to close the gate - and looked up. Holy shit. I had been working on what would become my "Go Ask Alice" sculpture, and landscape was the last thing on my mind. But here was this breathtaking sky spread out over me. It was March of 2012 and Venus and Jupiter were in conjunction, 3 degrees apart. Arching over them to the south were Taurus the bull and Orion - and then a car came over the hill up the road, its headlights completing the parabola. Bingo. This is the way my images ambush me. I got my sketchpad out of the car and made a scribble of the composition so it wouldn't get away. I made a painting, a watercolor and then this print a year later. I enlarged the planets to make the composition work and because that's the way I saw them. Venus is in her gibbous (pregnant) phase. I thought star-gazers like myself would appreciate this print more than others because of its astronomical accuracy, but more earthbound viewers also like it, so there are only a few left. The print is a 2-color linocut, image 10 x 7 inches, sheet 11 x 9.5 inches. I can send it matted with a white or off-white mat. The Criswell Linocut I began these experiments with linoleum back in 1999. Although these prints may resemble etchings, drypoints, lithographs or some strange hybrid, they are true relief prints, printed in two or more colors from linoleum blocks. I didn't invent this technique - Picasso and his printer Arnera did - but I've adapted it to my own purposes and, since nobody else in the world is doing it as far as I know, I'm calling it "The Criswell Linocut." The two most important things about this technique are that (1) I cut the designs with a drypoint needle and (2) that I print the dark color first and the light color second. This enables me to draw my image directly on the key block, just as I would draw with a pen on paper, rather than cut away everything BUT the image as in traditional relief printmaking. For more info about this, checkout www.warrencriswell.com/linocuts.html.

Printmaking:Linocuts on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:9.5 W x 11 H x 0.1 D in

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