Hand with Ammonite (print)
Hand with Ammonite
archival inkjet print
45.5 x 38.5 cm (18″ x 15.25″)
Inspired by an earlier photo/scan by the same name, and this even earlier scan
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by Marja-Leena Hand with Nest
Hand with Nest
archival inkjet print
45.5 x 38.5 cm (18″ x 15.25″)
by Marja-Leena Hand with Pine Cone
Hand with Pine Cone
archival inkjet print
45.5 x 38.5 cm (18″ x 15.25″)
Another in my new series of prints of hands with objects
by Marja-Leena Hand with Leaf
Hand with Leaf
archival inkjet print
45.5 x 38.5 cm (18″ x 15.25″)
This fall I have been working on a series of prints of hands with objects. So far six pieces in the still ongoing series are editioned. I’m now pleased to begin to show them here. This one is probably my favourite so far, I love the skeleton of a large magnolia leaf.
Added Feb.24th, 2013: While searching for something else deep in the archives, I found some of my earlier scans of magnolia leaves here and here. It feels like finding old sketches.
by Marja-Leena in progress
Here’s a peek at some of my work that is in progress in the printmaking studio. These are early trial proofs. More about these later when the series is a bit more finished.
I must get outside to work in the garden! It is a rare day when it is not pouring rain, the morning fog is burning off and it is sunny on a day that I don’t have other pressing commitments. See you later…
by Marja-Leena Lea, an etching
an early trial proof
a later colour trial proof, almost there
Lea – etching, 1983
image: 22.2 x 22.5 cm. (8.75″ x 8.8″)
Paper: 38 x 38 cm. (15″ x15″)
Here is one of my very early etchings from the time when I returned to printmaking. As I’ve mentioned in the past, I fell in love with printmaking in my last year at art school, too late to major in it, but left with the feeling that I wanted to return to it some day. The opportunity came much much later and of course, I had to spend time relearning the processes.
After deep etching this plate, I worked on numerous proofs, trying out different colours and various ways of inking it. I wrote many notes on the proofs about those processes. The top one is getting close to what I wanted, to my eye at the time, with the technique of intaglio wiping (the blues), then with a relief roll (red) over it. More colour trials were made, with the second image above getting very close. The final editioned version is shown last.
I’m not overly fond of how I designed the image and I now rather prefer the colours in the first one shown, but it’s an example of the process of learning technique before mastering the image along with it.
by Marja-Leena Writing-on-Stone IV, V
Silent Messengers: Writing-on-Stone IV
archival inkjet and collagraph
76.2 x 50.6 cm.
Silent Messengers: Writing-on-Stone V
archival inkjet and collagraph
76.2 x 50.6 cm.
Here are two more of the Writing-on-Stone pieces from the Silent Messengers series.
For more information and to view the others, see Writing-on-Stone I and II and Writing-on-Stone III.
All of the Silent Messenger series may of course also be accessed at the link on the left under PRINTWORKS.
UPDATE summer 2012: My new GALLERY is up and running, please visit my works there!
by Marja-Leena Writing-on-Stone series
Silent Messengers: Writing-on-Stone I
archival inkjet and collagraph
76.2 x 50.6 cm.
As reorganization in the studio continues, I realize I also need to do some here on the blog. With the redesign at the end of January, I lost the gallery/slide show (though some stray links to it here and there seem to work and bring it up on the old site). I am eagerly anticipating a replacement whenever my too-busy-with-work family members can manage it.
In the meantime, when revisiting some of my Silent Messengers: Writing-on-Stone series here, I noticed only Writing-on-Stone III appears along with the announcement for the “gallery” and the others are only viewable in the latter.
So I am placing them right on the main blog where the links will find them directly. I hope you will enjoy revisiting them or, if new here, viewing them for the first time as they are works from 2007 (seems like almost yesterday!). Above is the first one, and below is the second in the series. Numbers four and five will be posted later.
Here is some background information about Writing on Stone Park in Alberta and our visit there which inspired these works.
Silent Messengers: Writing-on-Stone II
archival inkjet and collagraph
76.2 x 50.6 cm.
Please visit my post about the making of the trial proofs for Writing-on-Stone I.
UPDATE: Please view also Writing-on-Stone IV and V
UPDATE 2, much later: The new GALLERY is up (see link on the top left here) and the works may now be viewed there under their series name, though not all the work has been uploaded yet – another work in progress.
by Marja-Leena Fragments VI
FRAGMENTS VI
archival inkjet on Hahnemuhle Wm.Turner paper
61.5 x 82.5 cm. (24.25″ x 32.5″)
I am pleased to say that my latest piece in this series is now printed and I am very happy with it.
The FRAGMENTS series may be seen anytime on one page by clicking on Fragments under PRINTWORKS on the left bar, and this link of course.