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More textural panels

January 29, 2015 by Lin Kerr 3 Comments

I have worked a lot with textural panels. I feel they are worthy artworks in their own right even though I often use texture as a part of a larger artwork. I love the regularity of the letters offset by the irregularity of the stamping.

Paper, copper and paper rolled over with printing ink
Paper, copper and paper rolled over with printing ink

These were all done with my metal letters and a hammer. These are industrial letters used for stamping machinery. The middle panel was an interactive piece done by various people at Art in Action one year.
Here are the letters and when you scroll down you’ll see the two paper ones in context.

4mm Clarke Letter Punches
4mm Clarke Letter Punches
A is for Ox  20cm square
A is for Ox 20cm square

I envisaged the one below turning out like A is for Ox, with gleaming white letters. Instead of rolling over it, I screenprinted a brush painted circle (photographic screen) and the ink filled the letters. But there was a lovely subtle contrast and once I readjusted my results vs. my vision, I was very pleased with this.

First and Last - 40cm square
First and Last – 40cm square

 

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  1. Fee says

    January 29, 2015 at 8:58 am

    I absolutely adore receiving your blog. I have had awful matters over the captcha before, so I am not sure this will go through.
    Each day is a delight to open my emails. Thank you Lin for all the hard efforts to get them on screen. Don’t stop. They are SO appreciated.

    with love, fee

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    • Lin says

      January 29, 2015 at 11:10 am

      Hi Fee
      I asked my web designer to sort out a different captcha. Thanks for the response – it means a lot. Hope your art teaching is going well. Lin

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  2. Lesley says

    January 29, 2015 at 1:52 pm

    Lin, I have a set of those punches and have singularly failed to make anything of them. I am having ideas after seeing these gorgeous examples. That final piece with the ink circle is beautiful. I would have thought the action of screen printing would squash the embossed letters but obviously not. It is fabulous.

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