Dance of the Stars

This image was inspired by Kandinsky’s painting “Several Circles”. I didn’t attempt to copy his image but to base my own idea on several circles in a field. I added my own interest in astronomy to transform the image into a star field dancing around in force fields.

This is a three plate etching/aquatint/destruction ground/collograph/engraving. The image size is 17-5/8 by 11-7/8 inches. There is no edition as yet but there are 17 color proofs printed with three stages of the plates. I wanted to explore this image using various color combinations during which I modified one or more of the plates. This produced an interesting variety of color proofs of which this is one example.

Dancers

This is a reprint of two plates that I created some years ago. The idea was to try to capture the motion of a ballerina in a single image rather than showing 4 ballerinas in different positions. Here I’ve captured four stages of the motion from the beginning to the end.

This is a three plate etching/aquatint/collograph. The image size is 6-3/4 by 4-11/16 inches. There is an edition of 6 as well as a total of 8 artist’s proofs of previous versions as follows:

1 - Dancers I in red/orange

1 – Dancers I in pastel red/orange

1 – Dancers I in blue/red

2 – Dancers I in brown/rose

1 – Dancers II in red/orange

1 – Dancers III

1 – Blue Dancers III

Moonrise

This image is the same as the image Sunrise except it is printed in different colors.

This is a two plate etching where the white of the paper provides the third color. The image size is 6 x 9 inches. There are presently only two artist’s proofs of this image.

Sunset

This image is based on an earlier series, called Sunrise over Greenbelt Lake, that I did some years ago. Both images are based on a photograph I took of Greenbelt Lake in Maryland. This image is smaller and reversed from the earlier work and was etched using different techniques. This is the first time that I have ever based a new image on an older image, but I wanted to see how the older image might look in a different form.

This is a three plate etching/lift ground/destruction ground. The image size is 6 x 9 inches. It was printed using Charbonelle inks which have a richer color than the previous versions. There is an edition of 5 with 4 artist’s proofs.