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The lino-drypoint block, printed intaglo
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"Fly Me to the Moon" - Limited Edition 3 of 6 Print

Warren Criswell

United States

Printmaking, Linocuts on Paper

Size: 10 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Image 10 x 7 inches, sheet 12 x 10 inches After 2 failed attempts to make a pure linocut of this image, this time I just said the hell with it and did whatever it took to get the effects I wanted. The result is an edition - or series? - of 6 mixed media drawings that started out as prints, or, as I prefer to call it, a linocut/lino-drypoint with pastel, graphite, ballpoint & collage. See additional images for the four blocks. The fourth one, the tree, is the lino-drypoint, printed as an intaglio plate, over the relief print produced by the three linocuts and the pastel-brightened moon. Impossible, I know, but it worked. The leaves I cut laboriously from different kinds of drawing paper with an x-acto knife, painted with watercolors, veined with a pencil and stuck on with acid-free paste. 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 (with the possible exception of this particular print), 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 mostly 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 .html.

DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Printmaking:

Linocuts on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:

6

Size:

10 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

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"I was a loner as a kid, an only child, the kind that grow up to be terrorists, bank robbers or artists. I wasn't interested in terror but tried robbery, stole a watch in the third grade but got caught and took up art. They haven't caught me at that yet." (Warren Criswell) --- “I am saying that a journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do, what you will find, or what you find will do to you.” (James Baldwin) --- Warren Criswell was born in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1936 and has lived in Arkansas with his wife Janet since their bus broke down there in 1978. Primarily a self-taught painter, Criswell is also a printmaker, sculptor and animator. He has had 41 solo exhibitions in the United States and one in Taiwan. His work has been included in 77 group exhibitions in New York, Atlanta, Washington DC, Arkansas, Virginia, North Carolina, Germany and Taiwan, and is represented in the permanent collections of many institutions, including: The Arkansas Arts Center; the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina; The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA; Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR; the University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Capital Arts Center, Taipei, China; the University of Central Arkansas; Hendrix College; the Center for Arts & Science of SE Arkansas; and the Central Arkansas Library System, as well as in private and corporate collections in the United States, Europe and Asia. --- In 2021 he won the Arksnsas Governor's Award for Individual artist. In 1996 he was awarded a fellowship grant for painting and works on paper by the Mid-America Arts Alliance and the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2003 an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant for painting and drawing by the Arkansas Arts Council. Warren Criswell is currently represented by M2 Gallery in Little Rock and Saatchi Art.

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