The Way I See It

Web of Cosmic Proportions

19/01/2016 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: JT | In: Art, drawing

This drawing took me a lot longer to complete than I thought it would. But, it is finally finished! One little triangle led to another and another and another until the whole sheet of paper was covered. There must be thousands of triangles in what I now call Cosmic Web, a “Web Series” drawing of cosmic proportions. It was drawn with a rapidograph pen/India ink on Stonehenge paper, 22″ x 30″.

Cosmic Web Ink drawing by Janet TowbinCosmic Web; 2016; India ink on paper; 22″ x 30″

Cosmic Web in progress ink drawing by Janet TowbinCosmic Web (drawing in progress)

Cosmic Web Ink drawing (detail) by Janet TowbinCosmic Web (detail)

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My First Prints of the Year

14/01/2016 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: JT | In: Art, Printmaking

My first prints of the new year were completed today by Brent Bond at Santo Press. These two prints represent the 19th and 20th print editions we have completed in less than a year.

Rubedo is a linocut I shelved for a long while. I just couldn’t get it to print as cleanly as I wanted it to print. And then I found Brent–who can make any matrix print superbly. He worked wonders with this one and I couldn’t be happier.

Quicksilver I is the first of a planned threesome Santo Press is publishing. It’s our first try using a laser to cut the linoleum block. All three will be printed with shimmering metallic ink on black paper. The laser-cut linoleum blocks will then eventually be carved by hand and printed as three-color reduction prints–which will look entirely different.

There are quite a few more prints planned so keep watching this space for more updates. We are cranking them out pretty fast.  

print, art, printmaking,Rubedo; 2016; Linocut; published by Santo Press; edition of 20; 11″ x 11″ image size; Stonehenge Cream paper 17″ x 15″.

Print by Janet Towbin, Quicksilver I,

Quicksilver I; 2016; Laser cut linoleum; published by Santo Press; 10″ x  8″ image size; Stonehenge black paper, 14″ x 11″

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New in The Patterns of Obsession Series: Mirrored Swirls

23/11/2015 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: JT | In: Art, drawing, Pattern

I finally completed a new drawing yesterday in my Patterns of Obsession series called Mirrored Swirls. The idea of it has been haunting (or intimidating?) me for well over a year and I finally decided to sit down and do it. The “mirrored swirls” concept has also been utilized in a print (or two) and was the subject of a much smaller drawing a while back.

But here is the BIG one in all her glory! It is graphite on paper, image size 16″ x 16″ (paper 22″ x 22″).

Mirrored Swirls

 

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