kcolell says:
October 4, 2010 at 12:37 pm (Edit)
Printmaking retroactive from June 2010
I read “True innovators in the art world, and Mitch Lyons is one of them,
making the complex appear to be so simple, so clear… Mitch has added to the vocabulary of contemporary art.
(Leonard Lehrere, Department of Art and Art Professions, NYU)
I read the above and my husband and I packed up the Lamb and family dog and drove to Sante New Mexico to attend a workshop with Mitch Lyons on the art of the Clay Monotype Process. What an inspirational experience!
Since 1968 Mitch Lyons has been pioneering his image making from a slab of clay. Inspired by the Paleolithic clay print/paintings of Lascaux and Altimira Lyons re innovated the process of making imagery from a slab of stoneware clay. No printing press is needed. First a slab of soneware clay is rolled out about 1/4″thick. After allowing the slab to dry to “leather hard” consistency, colored slips are made using China clay and pigments. The colored slips are brushed on, dried and rolled into the clay slab, one color over another, building the design with images, colors and textures on the “matrix”.
As they say, a picture speaks a thousand words so following some beautiful images created by Mitch himself and the workshop participants I decided my printmaking students at CLU had to have this clay monotype printmaking experience.
The Colell family loaded up the car and returned home and I introduced my summer school printmakers to Clay Monotype Printmaking. What fun we had. Carolyn Ryan entered a combination of a textile/ printmaking art piece into a national art show and placed second. Outstanding. Cameron, Katrina , Nate, Myrna and Sharon produced very handsome clay monotypes during this summer experience.
As soon as I figure out how to attach photos of the artwork I shall do so.