Artwork Description:
Title FISHERS OF MEN
Size 30.5 inches wide by 20.5 inches highGenre PrintmakingMonoprint, Etching, Gyotaku, Chine collèCollageMixed Media on PaperThai mulberry bark paper, Japanese Rice Paper, Kozo Threads, Rives BFK white paper, Windsor Newton Printing Inks, Gloss Acrylic Gel, Snow white Imperial Paper, Methyl Cellulose, Gold Color Pencil, Charbonnel oil base etching ink, Acid free blotter paper, Hunts water base relief ink, Oil of Spike Lavender. Narrative
This multi-layered work combines several printmaking techniques including etchingintaglio , monotype, relief printing, Chine collè, and Japanese Gyotaku. The later most technique involves the printing of fishreal of rubber castvia the rolling of ink onto fish and then pulling a print. It’s geometric flow between the horizontal and vertical planes is balances with multiple levels of optical design. It’s narrative involves the New Testament line that, “You shall become fishers of men.”This one of a kind work ships wrapped, flat and in a cardboard box. It does not include either a mat or frame.
Artwork Keywords:
Fish, Christ, Fishing Nets, Optical, Colorful, Geometric, Original Mixed Media