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| Nightlight Meadow Battisford, Monotype: Akua Intaglio on Hahnemühle, 10 x 10 cm |
Using waterbased ink and a press means that plates can hang around and still be viable. This morning I got up to yesterday's plate and a desire to think about night light. I made Nightlight Meadow Battisford by thinking about evening colours and using much of the composition already on the plate to evoke a different time, and perhaps a different season to yesterday's print.
I talked to the artist Andrew Farmer: https://www.andrewfarmerfineart.com at the New English Art Club opening a few weeks ago about how he paints nightlight. A few summers ago I stood on the porch of the barn and drew the Gertmenian's house in the dark. I had the porch light on but it was very difficult to see with the light behind me. I thought about a head torch… The pastel is in one of my altered sketchbooks and the image below is the monotype I made today (staying quite true to the pastel in the altered sketchbook).
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| Nightlight Gertmenian's Cranberry Monotype: Akua Intaglio on Heritage, 10 x 10 cm |
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