A Blue Moon at the Waning of Summer

In which I announce my End of Summer Sale and an upcoming show at the SAGA Gallery in New York City.

Above is the stunning view of downtown Brooklyn and the isle of Manhattan beyond, taken from a friend’s rooftop last weekend.

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And here we are, at the second bookend of Summer. Always it sneaks up on me, and that eternal back-to-school feeling tints the long weekend a wistful shade. But I have ferry tickets out to the Rockaways for tomorrow, so an adventure is afoot before the seriousness of Autumn arrives and drops its suitcases on the doorstep.

And! I’ve been photographing pieces, writing up descriptions, and adding new things to my shop in anticipation of my End of Summer sale. I’ve added some of one-of-a-kind things, as well as some previously unavailable prints. This is a Promo Code type sale, so you won’t see any “BIG SALE” graphics or other indicia. Rather, I’m giving you a code for 30% off anything and everything in the place— only to my subscribers.

Ready? Here it is:

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Just copy and paste that –or just type it– into the appropriate box when you’re ready to check out. This code is good til September 15th.

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In other art news, the two etchings pictured above will be in the company of many other miniature prints on view at the Society of American Graphic Artists Gallery on Union Square here in New York. Details below, or follow the link to their website.

In the coming weeks, I’ll be getting back into the studio, back to my etching practice. I have two plates that need finishing; one is nearly there and one needs some legit triage after two less-than-successful runs at spit-bite.

Spit-bite is a technique wherein the printmaker uses a paintbrush to apply the acid to the plate instead of dunking the plate wholesale into a vat of acid. It’s a wonderful technique, but in my most recent plate I was trying to cut corners and do everything freehand, rather than the usual way, which involves masking areas out, and doing the ‘painting’ in stages.

Freehanding spit-bite does work for some prints— see the print on the left above, “In the Fairy Woods”— those soft, watery looking tones were done in this way. But for the current plate, there are architectural needs for edges, and so the need for masking. I’ll plan on documenting the process in photos, so that you can see what I mean.

That’s all from me for today.

Thanks for subscribing and, of course, for reading. I hope you’ll take a look in the shop to see if there’s anything that needs to be on your walls, or the walls of someone you know— and use the sale code! You can share the code with someone you think may be into my art, too— I won’t mind :) Here it is again:

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Until next time—

xx Liz