This is a recent monotype from my “Water Works” series
Indigo Sea, monoprint
10 09 2012Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: Art, Cape Cod, mono print, ocean, original, sea
Categories : Art, Cape Cod, Ocean, original print, printmaking, Uncategorized
Shrine
18 11 2010
Mixed media monotype mounted on board
This monotype is from the “characters” series . It was conceived as a shrine to the ancestors, and includes fish bones to suggest the fact that we all originally came from the sea. The central section is cut into the board and has an overlay of translucent rice paper.
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Tags: calligraphy, character, mixed media, monotype, pictogram, rice paper, shrine
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Ancestors
18 11 2010These are invented characters based on ancient Chinese pictographs. The central quadrant has a translucent overlay to suggest a greater distance in time from these figures.
Mixed media monotype mounted on board
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Float
1 04 2009
This monotype is from the “Stones” series. Click on this image to see more monotypes from this series. They were done using a torn paper reduction technique which I developed. This image reminds me of ice or wood floating in water.
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Tags: ruin, runes, stele, stones
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Summer Song
9 01 2009 
The central segment of this mixed-media print is an etching which was inspired by the spartina grasses, prevalent along the marsh edges of Cape Cod . I imagined the sound of the wind in the grasses expressed in the symbols in the lowest section of the image.
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Tags: etching, linocut, writing
Categories : Art, Cape Cod, mixed media, original print, printmaking
Message 2
17 03 2008
Message 2Originally uploaded by lesliekramer84
This linocut is based on cunieform writing, with very old Nepalese printing blocks printed above and below. A friend found these blocks in Nepal and purchased them for me. It also includes gold paper in a process called chine-colle . Chine-colle is a collage method for adding color to a print during the printing process.
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Tags: Art, block print, cunieform, linocut, printmaking, Sanskrit
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Characters
16 03 2008
These are invented characters based on chinese calligraphy. The border is a piece of rice paper printed with ancient writing. Click on the image to see more work in the “Writings” series.
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Tags: Art, etching, printmaking, Writings
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Palimpsest with gold leaf
16 03 2008A palimpsest is a manuscript, often on parchment, which has been effaced, but traces of the original text remain. This etching is composed of layers of ancient alphabets, similar to the way that one civilization is based on the foundation of those which have preceded it.
Palimpsest with gold leaf Originally uploaded by lesliekramer84
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Tags: alphabet, Art, etching, printmaking
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