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House in Blue, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, showing the printed image only: a blue traditional Malaysian house on stilts, standing on purple land at the edge of dark teal water, with two black coconut palms against a lime green sky. The blue was applied with a sponge and beaded up on the plate, leaving tiny light spots
Full image of House in Blue, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen: a blue traditional Malaysian house on stilts, standing on purple land at the edge of dark teal water, with two black coconut palms against a lime green sky. The blue was applied with a sponge and beaded up on the plate, leaving tiny light spots. Pressed on cotton paper
House in Blue, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, framed and standing on a carved wooden cabinet under a barred window, with a mug for scale. The room is a Blender render of the interior of the same traditional Malaysian house shown in the print.
House in Blue, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, framed on a wooden wall under a spotlight, seen from the side, with binoculars, a watch and a lighter on a table below. The room is a Blender render of the interior of the same traditional Malaysian house shown in the print.
House in Blue shown in a detailed shot. This is a gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen: the close-up shows the blue roof and front staircase of the traditional Malaysian house, speckled with tiny light spots where the paint beaded up, against a lime green sky with small black dots
  1. House in Blue, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, showing the printed image only: a blue traditional Malaysian house on stilts, standing on purple land at the edge of dark teal water, with two black coconut palms against a lime green sky. The blue was applied with a sponge and beaded up on the plate, leaving tiny light spots
  2. Full image of House in Blue, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen: a blue traditional Malaysian house on stilts, standing on purple land at the edge of dark teal water, with two black coconut palms against a lime green sky. The blue was applied with a sponge and beaded up on the plate, leaving tiny light spots. Pressed on cotton paper
  3. House in Blue, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, framed and standing on a carved wooden cabinet under a barred window, with a mug for scale. The room is a Blender render of the interior of the same traditional Malaysian house shown in the print.
  4. House in Blue, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, framed on a wooden wall under a spotlight, seen from the side, with binoculars, a watch and a lighter on a table below. The room is a Blender render of the interior of the same traditional Malaysian house shown in the print.
  5. House in Blue shown in a detailed shot. This is a gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen: the close-up shows the blue roof and front staircase of the traditional Malaysian house, speckled with tiny light spots where the paint beaded up, against a lime green sky with small black dots

House in Blue

RM475.00

Original (1/1) Monotype print by Daniel Arendzen, House in Blue (2026)

 

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Impression Description

The House in Blue is another approach to create a vintage look and feeling of something valuable getting lost in time, or space. This composition has water, land, sky and the trees. I tried to let the colours work together leaving more spotted black dots on the print. It makes the impression age and look older than it is. The traditional Malaysian house’s blue is applied with a sponge. The plate itself was a bit oily and that caused the blue (and also the purple land!) to bead up, leaving tiny holes the air shines through. I see it as the house fading from the inside, just at the start. Can it still be kept? Will the lights ever go back on? The combination of different techniques to apply the paint gives this impression its unique character.

Details:

Type of art:
Unique (1/1) original hand-pulled layered monotype print

Medium:
Acrylic paint on paper printed, pressed and hand-pulled from a gel plate.

Sizes:
– Paper size A4, 21 × 29.7 cm (8.3 × 11.7 in).
– Art size 20.3 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in).

Paper: 100% cotton, acid-free, cold pressed, 300gsm, sourced from the EU. Cold-pressed paper is textured which gives the print a rougher and unique feel.

Authenticity: All art comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Art is signed, titled and dated below the artwork with pencil.

Series: This print is a part of the Nostalgia series, in which time has stopped while the world has moved on. In my imagination the traditional houses feel vintage, lost, or are already in different worlds than ours. Should we let go of the past? Or not yet?

What is a monotype print?

A monotype is a type of print whereby the printmaker starts with a clean plate the paper is pressed on after the image is created, and ends with a clean plate after the paper is pulled from it. It is, therefore, impossible to create the same image twice as opposed to monoprints. With a monoprint, the plate the paper is pressed on has the image permanently created in it using different techniques. Then it is possible to reproduce identical prints in smaller limited editions (or just only one of course).

All the impressions I make are monotypes. The gel plate is clean so I will have to start anew to create the next impression. This ensures you always will have a unique print that nobody else has.

The artist & printmaker

Daniel Arendzen in a hat and glasses holding a yellow gel plate monotype of a traditional Malaysian house, standing inside a Blender render of the same house, with a carved wooden window behind him.
Daniel is standing in the digital version of the house he is holding in his hands.

Daniel Arendzen is the artist and printmaker who makes original works of art using traditional printmaking techniques with a modern twist in which he first recreates traditional houses digitally before transforming them into physical pieces. His primary objective is to (re)connect people with home through traditional architecture from all around the world. His current series are the Malaysian traditional houses.

 

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