Impression Description
This is the first attempt in the WPA style poster exploration. The house, trees and ground were fairly common as I did the same approach several times. This is the first house in which the lights are turned on. It is as if the house is standing in the shadow of a valley with the sun setting in the background with the mountains at the distance turning orange and red already. This was a complex piece to make, maybe a bit more than I could chew. There were about ten masks to add, position, apply paint, remove, wait for the paint to dry and repeat. The result is quite well done! The are some minor issues that give both character to the print and also something I don’t repeat. I actually forgot the add the shadow side on the right blue mountain! The clouds were added later. It’s something I won’t do in future prints. As to creating these labour intensive impressions, I think I am more in my element with a more free-er flow. However, maybe practice will make perfect?
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, with the clouds and the bright yellow on the mountain painted by hand in acrylic after the print was pulled.
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, hot pressed, 300gsm, sourced from the EU. Hot-pressed paper is smooth to give the print a fine 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 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.
