Amelia's Art Blog: My Recent Work

Collage Spring 2013
Recently working on collages with hand painted and stamped tissue paper. This one is of early buds on the trees I was watching during the long, cool spring here in D.C. this year. It seemed to take the blooms so long to form.

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Drawings

These two ink drawings were completed in the same sitting, looking up through the branches of the trees on an evening in early May. I wanted to capture the impression of the pattern of the branches and foliage on the evening sky with a combination of line and brush work with the ink.

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Working with scale in creating a collage, I developed an original study (4"x4") and then maintained the composition in an enlarged version (36" x 36"). The final work is a collage with tissue, charcoal, pastel, and acrylic paint on paper.

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Etchings

Learning to develop the etching plate was a challenging process. I enjoyed using an original drawing for the etching and then creating multiple variations in prints. Here is a proof of the etching, based on a drawing of an orchid, and then also a couple of experiments with chine-colle (a printmaking technique similar to collage).

Bio

A bit about my background. I began painting in 1996, at first painting on-site, then later in the studio, I have always been interested in the landscape. As my painting progressed, my work became more simplified and abstracted from the landscape. I developed an interest in patterns and repetition of shape and color. More recently, I have explored printmaking as a way to make multiples of my original drawings with screenprints and etchings and to develop the use of patterns in the prints.

My website has examples of a range of my work from early to more recent: http://www.ameliashachoy.com/