Horizontal Arrangement

Hand-Painted Relief Prints

Varied Edition of Five

12” x 18”

Matted to 18” x 24” (which is a standard frame size, I bought the frame pictured at Michael’s for $30)

 Price includes domestic shipping with tracking and full insurance. I am a speedy shipper generally, but I don’t have the correct boxes for these on hand, so give me an extra few days please. Pick-up in NE MPLS is also an option.

I made the Tiny Arrangements series two autumns ago after a hard frost and my real flowers were gone. They were VERY tiny and arranged from flowers I had printed onto antique paper and then cut out meticulously. Recently, I chose my favorite two from that series and used foam printing to print a short run of each. Then I painted them in with gouache and acrylics.

 About foam printing: if you are not familiar, picture the white foam container that is sometimes used to package meat. Imagine that material as a large flat sheet and how easy it would be to scratch into. Whatever is scratched into the foam becomes a relief and can be inked and printed like a wood or linoleum print. But way safer and easier. Which is why it’s often used to teach children printmaking. Twenty years ago, when I was the art director of a studio for artists with disabilities (it was not art therapy, it was adult artists who lived with a disability working together in a shared studio to overcome obstacles to art making) we used foam printmaking to do workshops and over the course of a decade we elevated the medium. Fine art was made with craft foam printing for sure.

 I found a few sheets when I was cleaning out my studio, and these are the results.