Etching, aquatint, soft ground.
Image size: 4.5 x 7 inches
I used Virginia native Libellula dragonfly specimens from a biology lab to create the drawings; I then pressed native emergent water plants into soft ground to make the background habitat. These dragonflies are skimmers; they like to hang out near freshwater ponds.
Etching, water color.
This poor geranium barely survived the winter, but hung on. I bought a whimsical pot for it and simply couldn’t resist the urge to make a print of it. Viola!
Etching - soft ground.
Image Size: 5 x 6.5 inches
My sister’s dog provided the inspiration for this print. Wolf!
Etching, soft ground.
Image Size: 4 x 6 inches
I loved the happy juxtaposition of fabrics and patterns, so I exaggerated them in the etching.
Line etching with a bit of aquatint.
Image Size 4.5 x 4.5 inches
Etching, aquatint.
Image Size: 4 x 6 inches
Friday the 13th has always been my lucky day. Enough said!
Etching, aquatint.
Image Size: 5 x 6 inches
This print was inspired by ammonites on display at the Museum of Natural History in Vienna, Austria, June 2018. The original Mesozoic fossils are from the species Asteroceras stellare, Lower Jurassic (approx. 200 million years old) and were found in Southern England, Charmouth, Dorset.
Etching - Aquatint, soft ground.
Image Size: 4 x 7 inches
Who doesn’t love seahorses?
I mixed green and black ink to get the deep watery tone.
Etching
Image Size: 4 x 6 inches
This is a simple line etching of a cool cat that loved Jazz. May he rest in peace.
Etching, aquatint, color is rainbow-rolled
Image Size: 6 x 8 inches.
Due to the unique application of color inks, each print is different —it is an EV - edition variable.
Inspired by my husband’s love of flying and by French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Vol de Nuit (Night Flight) published in 1931.
Etching, Aquatint, Watercolor
Image size: 9 x 12 inches
Inspired by a window in the Chateau D’Usse in the Loire Valley, France. The chateau is believed to be the inspiration for the story of “Sleeping Beauty.”
Etching and Chine collé
Image Size: 4 x 6 inches
This is the same simple line etching of a cool Jazz-loving cat that appears in black and white as “Snap Cat.” But with color added.
Hand watercolored Mulberry paper added through Chine Collé.
(May he rest in peace.)
Etching, aquatint, Chine-collé
Image Size: 4 x 6 inches
This is the line etching, “Good Luck Kitty” with color added through Chine-collé.
Mezzotint
Image Size: 5 x 4 inches
This is a mezzotint on a copper plate. The image is two sibling ragdoll kittens.
Etching, aquatint
Image size: 6 x 8.75
My inspiration was our neighborhood cafe. Etched in ferric chloride as my first print using nontoxic etching methods.
Etching, aquatint.
Image size - 4 x 6 inches
Same kitties as mezzotint print, one year later. Etched on copper flashing.
Etching, aquatint
Image size: 5 x 7 inches