Print making not just fancy stamps !!!


                                                    

                                                  Lisa Batchelder

                                                 Lurking Beneath

                                                 Printmaking: Reductive, Relief,

                                                 Chin'colle and French Posh ware

                                                 V.E, 5 #5

                                                 30x40in  (2020).

         People some times don't see past the squid...or the fact it is print making . This piece was my first real pushed piece in print making....Thank you D.L. Simmons my mentor and professor.  I have been told that prints are fancy stamps  this is not true. there is also and age old fight of craft verses art. In my truth it is art. 


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