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Two Houses Study #2, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, showing the printed image only: two traditional Malaysian houses on stilts in bright orange with dark roof lines, a large one in front with a wooden staircase and a smaller one further back, in a blue-green landscape with two black coconut palms and layered teal and green hills, the distant hills lighter, under a pale blue sky
Two Houses Study #2, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, shown in full including the paper and the pencil writing at the bottom. The impression shows two orange traditional Malaysian houses on stilts in a blue-green landscape with coconut palms and layered hills under a pale blue sky, on textured cold-pressed paper
Two Houses Study #2, 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.
Two Houses Study #2, 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.
Two Houses Study #2, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, shown as a close-up: the bright orange roof and wooden walls of the front traditional Malaysian house, drawn in dark lines, with a teal and green hill behind. It shows the brayer texture of the acrylic paint on the textured paper
  1. Two Houses Study #2, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, showing the printed image only: two traditional Malaysian houses on stilts in bright orange with dark roof lines, a large one in front with a wooden staircase and a smaller one further back, in a blue-green landscape with two black coconut palms and layered teal and green hills, the distant hills lighter, under a pale blue sky
  2. Two Houses Study #2, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, shown in full including the paper and the pencil writing at the bottom. The impression shows two orange traditional Malaysian houses on stilts in a blue-green landscape with coconut palms and layered hills under a pale blue sky, on textured cold-pressed paper
  3. Two Houses Study #2, 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. Two Houses Study #2, 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. Two Houses Study #2, gel plate monotype by Daniel Arendzen, shown as a close-up: the bright orange roof and wooden walls of the front traditional Malaysian house, drawn in dark lines, with a teal and green hill behind. It shows the brayer texture of the acrylic paint on the textured paper

Two Houses Study #2

RM375.00

Original (1/1) Monotype print by Daniel Arendzen, Two Houses Study #2 (2026)

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This piece is a study piece that I made available. These study pieces are leading up to the series and were for me to learn from, experiment and explore different techniques and materials. The reduced price reflects the compromise between exploring how to create vs the final quality of the creation and how that is perceived.

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Impression Description

The traditional houses are orange and it is contrasted with a blue-green environment. The colours in this impression work well together as the houses seem to catch the setting sun while the sky is still blue. I made a couple of test prints and studies of this composition. This second study is the first I am listing because it works. Instead of meticulously hand-cutting masks and stencils to be very precise where the colour is, I decided to take a more loose approach. I made masking easier by choosing to work with silhouettes of the mountains and have the distant mountains have a lighter colour than those standing nearby. That also matches with reality. I live in a valley with exactly those hills on the background and the distant hills are lighter in value compared to those that are nearer.

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 Landscape series. Parts of Malaysia have breathtaking limestone hills where these houses once stood. I am interested in creating landscapes to give the traditional houses a place to stand, a place to ground, a place you can go to. Here the house stands in its full right.

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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