I saw these beautiful swans last spring at the Union Bay Natural Area in Seattle, and photographed and sketched them. A friend suggested that they might make a good block print with their strong whites against the dark water. I had alot of fun carving this block and kept it small: 5" X 7". It went so much faster than the Yellowstone bison print I labored over for months. It helped to only have 2 colors, the blue and the black.
This is the first in an edition of 25, medium: printing inks on Magnani Pescia Paper.
Price: $65
Sibelius called his 5th Symphony his "swan hymn." He wrote: Nothing in the whole world affects me--nothing in art, literature, or music--in the same way as do these swans and cranes and wild geese. Their voices and being.
Really nice piece, Molly. The vertical lines of the swans' next against the horizontal water lines work so well, and I agree about the limited palette being really effective - as well as efficient, colorwise!
Posted by: Jocelyn Curry | February 25, 2010 at 07:39 AM