The monoprints are continuing, still offering surprises. This one will be going into an exhibition in the next couple of weeks. Like the previous ones, this is the result of much layering, texture and tone being added each time. It is possible to see embossing in some of the lighter areas, created by paper ribbon and strings of raffia. I can see forms in this that can be interpreted in many ways, every viewer will have a different take on it, but I have given it the title of Desert Morning as this is what the colours and the transparency of light suggested to me. In the Australian deserts, such as the Simpson, the range of colours are astonishing, and every sand dune is patterned with marking from animals, insects, reptiles and grasses, and the marks I have unknowingly created resonate with the patterns found out there.
This print is 40 x 30 cm, using Schminke water-based inks on Magnani Corona paper.
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I associate this with tracking. It seems that there is story telling in this pure abstract. And if you understand the symbols, you can put that story together. Not only animal tracks but weather patterns and even a mapped landscape. The colours and forms are magical – dreamtime.
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This is a wonderful response to this image – you have found more in it than I could have thought of, but it is exactly the imagery I was hoping to convey. Finding weather patterns and a mapped landscape from the forms that have emerged from my explorations delights me. Thank you!
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What fabulous colours and interesting patterns. I’m enjoying your monoprint explorations.
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Thank you Anne – I’m still enjoying these, each week on my printmaking day I wonder what will appear!
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I see people. Could make interesting dress fabric.
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I knew other people would see things I can’t see! Thanks Janina.
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Beautiful work Anna…
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Thank you Evelyn, much appreciated!
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This is just gorgeous. People always see things the artist never intended. I see people, expressions, structures.
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I find what other people see quite fascinating! Thanks Nancy.
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This is really wonderful, Anna.
There could be so many interpretations here.
Beautifully done.
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You are right Lisa, there can be many interpretations – I keep seeing new things myself! Thank you so much.
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Wow, Anna! I’m loving this piece! Can’t wait to go back and look at all your previous Monoprints. What a treat!
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Thanks Elena – I have just gone back to look at the earlier ones, and its interesting to see how they have changed, this is probably the most cohesive one, but I’m now working into some of the earlier ones, with interesting results.
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I really love this Anna! I especially love the color scheme and also the white “ribbon” that catches my eye and takes me back and forth in the painting! 🙂
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You know, that white ribbon was bothering me for a while, and I almost got rid of it, but in the end I felt it was important, so I’m delighted you like that too Patsy! Thank you for visiting.
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Oh I’m glad you didn’t get rid of it, Anna! I think it adds fluidity to the piece! 🙂 Sorry I don’t visit as often as I used to!
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Thanks Patsy – and don’t worry about fewer visits, I’m not doing well on visiting, and I’m not posting so often now either!
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Yeah, I noticed you were posting a lot less. I’ve missed your posts. But life has a way of taking different turns for a while! 🙂 Don’t worry about not visiting others. I don’t visit other blogs as much as I used to either. 🙂
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Wow. That’s gorgeous Anna. A perfect title for your print too.
Your outback travels really seem to have informed the ideas and abstract imagery here … other people’s comments are spot on !
Lovely to hear it will have had some exposure in an exhibition 🙂 Congratulations x
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This is one of my favourites Poppy, I’m so glad you like it too! Yes, I think the desert is inescapable, I have been hankering to get back out there again, so I think it is always just lurking in the background, ready to come out somewhere.
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