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.