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A world of creative possibilities opened when I started to add fabrics, textiles, and stitching to my original, single color, black etching. I complemented the texture and hue of the fibrous etching paper by stitching it onto muslin. Adding hints of orange, gray, white, and gold using fabrics, rice paper, gauze, ribbon, paint, threads, vellum, and even tea bags broadened the limited palette of the original print. I loved contrasting the sharpness of the etched line with the subtle tactile nature of the stitched lines and then visually adding the softer lines of my stone lithographs which I digitally printed on tea bags. The open door in the bottom corner is an image from my larger, more complex soft ground etching. I adjusted the size of the door and digitally printed it on vellum. In this art piece, the beckoning figure emerging from a confined space, could be compared to the possibilities awaiting when feeling free to explore opportunities in a new way.
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Hand-pulled, single color etching. I machine stitched the print onto muslin with batting behind the layers. I digitally printed images from my previous hand pulled lithograph andsoft-ground etching on tea bags and vellum. Heat fusing and gel to adhere printed images and small pieces of fabric, ribbon, lace, gauze, and rice paper. Machine stitched curved lines in black and orange thread. Finished piece mounted on canvas. Edges of muslin wrap the sides of the canvas with stitching.
Etching paper, black etching ink, muslin, rice paper, tea bags, vellum, ribbon, lace, gauze, commercially printed fabrics, metallic gold paper, white, orange, and black thread, acrylic paint, gel.