Wednesday, December 29, 2010

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.

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