Memento Mori

A new show I will be in opens this Friday October 28 from 6-10pm at Zip Gallery in the Highlands. I decided given the theme I would reconfigure some of my pieces from my thesis show to fit the spirit of the season and the original inspiration for the show which was All Saints and Souls Days.
Zip Gallery is located at 3644 Navajo St Denver in the Navajo Arts District. If you can't make the opening this show will be open during Denver Arts Week as well as November's First Friday.

Postcard Art

I made one of the Repeated Patterns images into a postcard for a postcard show in Montana. It might not get there in time to be included in the show but maybe the postal workers will enjoy it in transit.

Studio Snapshots

This is a new drypoint on Lexan that I proofed yesterday. The plate is only half finished so far.

Self Portrait in Books

More Repeated Patterns

More images from the Repeated Patterns series. These were made with images taken of the sunset from Evergreen, Colorado.

Repeated Patterns

This is a new series of archival inkjet prints I am working on titled Repeated Patterns. I noticed I was making the same decisions over and over again in my life and the ability to see my part in the whole play eluded me until I was able to get some distance and some accompanying perspective. When I was able to see how the different elements at play fit together it inspired me to make these images.



The original image used to make this pattern was a picture of tree branches reflected in water.


The original image used to make this pattern was a picture of the sunset I took from my front porch.


The original image for this pattern was also a picture of the sunset from my front porch.

Evergreen

The sunset from Evergreen on May 20, 2011.

Stroll Pictures

Name Change

Due to a change in my personal life I have decided to change my name. All of my work will now be signed and sold under the name Lisa M Kerns and my new website address will be
www.lisamkerns-fineart.com. I am currently working with my website provider to have everything changed over and my old address should forward to my new one once all of the details are taken care of. Thanks.

New Work Vintage 2009

I made most of these back in 2009 for the members show at Red Delicious Press. I really didn't know where the imagery was coming from but I recently started looking up symbols that have been coming up in my work on a website called Dream Moods. The images that seemed random at the time actually were very pertinent to what I was going through in my personal life and were indicative of what was going through my own mind even though I didn't consciously identify with it at the time. I found this quote by Carl Jung that pretty much sums it up:

"As against Freud's view that the dream is essentially a wish-fulfillment, I hold that the dream is a spontaneous self-portrayal, in symbolic form, of the actual situation in the unconscious."

watercolor, collagraph, and acrylic

watercolor monotype, collagraph, collage and oil pencil

collage, oil pencil, watercolor and collagraph (those are real peacock feathers printed into the paper)

Studio Update

Nothing like moving stuff around to get a fresh perspective. The studio is looking much better than it has in a long long time.

Drypoint on Lexan

I recently made an edition of drypoint on Lexan prints. I'm a little new to the process so there is definitely room for improvement but they look ok for a first try at printing an edition with this process. They are made just like a regular drypoint, but instead of copper I use Lexan, a shatterproof version of plexiglass that takes extreme amounts of pressure with grace. The process of printing these plates is just like a drypoint as well.

I spread ink over the image area with a piece of matteboard to apply ink to the plate and push the ink into the lines engraved into the plate surface


Once the ink is spread into the lines I use a piece of tarlatan, which is starched cheesecloth, to push the ink further into the lines by rubbing the ink in a circular motion until most of the ink has been removed from the surface of the plate. After buffing the plate with a piece of newsprint to remove any leftover plate tone the plate is ready to print.


This is the final print of the feathers that were printed over a previous plate of diamonds.

New Work Finally

New work! I'm making montypes with paper stencils. the process works like this:

Roll up the plate with ink. Place the cut paper stencils on top of the ink and place the print paper on top of that. Run the plate and paper through an etching press set at the right pressure. The first print will look like the one below.

I am working with a concept of ghosts and psychic residue for this body of work so I have chosen to continue printing the plate to get a "ghost" image. To make one I remove the stencils and print the plate as it is on good paper for a second time. Below are images of an original print and its subsequent "ghost" image:


And one of my favorite parts, the pile of used stencils I am left with at the end of the day.