w66. Apple Changing (4-color linocut) - Limited Edition 2 of 10 Print

This is the finished print, with the other 3 colors run on top of the key proof w65. I was into process color back then, which I had learned on my jobs in the commercial printing business and from Maxfield Parrish, who used it in his paintings. I did too when I returned to representational art. For several years my pallet consisted of nothing but glazes of alizarin lake blue, magenta, cadmium yellow light on a white ground, colors as close as I could get to the process colors, plus black. So when I started experimenting with lino-etching, I tried the same thing with this print, but only of the view through the doorway of Apple and her bubble gum. The rest of the print I cut as a traditional linocut, removing everything except the black lines (the opposite of the method used in the prints in my Saatchi collection, Warren Criswell's Linocuts). So using lye as the mordant and asphaltum as the stopout, I made four linoleum blocks to print yellow first, then magenta, then cyan and finally black. Very labor- and time-intensive! Which I think is the main reason I stopped doing it and developed the "Criswell Linocut" instead. This is a 4-color linocut, image 11 x 8.5 inches, sheet 15 x 12 inches. I think this is the only one left out of the edition of 10. The W Series These are mostly drawings, with an occasional print, that I had been keeping in my studio as reference material since 1983 and took to Taylor's Contemporanea Fine Arts in Hot Springs in 1996. That is, this is what's left of that batch, which I numbered w1 though w67. This was a salon gallery, a beautiful home transformed into a gallery by the owner, Carolyn Taylor. Upstairs was the Criswell room, my paintings on the wall, sculptures on pedestals, some chairs and a sofa for watching my animations. Carolyn's husband Delbert shrink-wrapped these works on paper onto foamcore boards, all archival materials, and during her monthly openings Carolyn would spread them out on a large table. Many were sold before she retired and shut down the gallery a few years ago. Since then they have been in a box. I've decided it's time to spread them out on the table again.

Printmaking:Linocuts on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:11 W x 15 H x 0.1 D in

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