Plant images in my landscapes are created using botanical printmaking with fresh green plants: apply ink to a leaf, lay the inky leaf on a prepared surface and hand-press it; remove the leaf to reveal the ink image left behind.
This simplicity is made more complex by assimilating fiber arts and painting techniques. Backgrounds are made using dyes, pastels, watercolors; grasses and leaves are printed to create all plant images. Acrylic overpainting or pastel enhancements give texture and definition to prints.
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Grasses and forbes collected from the Tanglewood Prairie in early July were printed on chalk pastel pigmented cotton muslin.
All plant material in this series was gathered from the Tanglewood Prairie, managed by the Science Museum of Minnesota. Individual pieces were made using the grasses and forbes harvested on July 1, late July, early August, late August, and the end of September. The atmosphere of each harvest day was recreated on the background material – sunny in July; cloudy, with a storm on the horizon in August.
Chalk Pastel enhancements were added after the grass prints dried. 38” x 25” These panels have been sold. Watch for similar creations made during the 2023 summer printing season at LindaSnouffer.com
Image title: "A Day in July" & “Later that Day (in July)”
Original has been sold. Watch for similar creations in the 2023 printing season at LindaSnouffer.com
Reproductions:
20" x 16" framed giclee $150
20" x 16" matted giclee $75
24" x 18" canvas print
$300
Pastel background on cotton rag paper. Timothy grass prints were used for cattails; paint daubs complete the seed heads.
Dry mounted on foam core and bagged, ready for framing.
10” x 10” SOLD
Watch for similar creations in the 2023 printing season at LindaSnouffer.com
The start the spring printing season is always exciting; First Tassels is composed on watercolor paper with a pastel background with more than a hundred individual grass images and pastels enhancements. Look closely to find pieces of grass that remain on the paper.
Original Botanical Print
16” x 20” SOLD
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Fiber dyed raw silk
with pastels complete the sky and earth.
Grass prints; pastel pencil enhancements.
Sprayed with UV/dust protectant;
framed simply without glass.
22” x 10”
$475
Long panels of tissue paper were dyed using fiber arts techniques. Hundreds of grasses were individually printed on each panel. Many of the grasses were harvested from the prairie, which is affectionately called "Grass Lake," and is adjacent to the Shoreview Library.
Fiber dyed textured fabric with
more than a hundred grass prints.
Sprayed with UV/dust protectant.
Framed simply with no glass.
17” x 36”
$1350
Image title: LindaSnouffer.AlongThePathway
Image alternate text: Along The Pathway
Starting with a cotton blotter from another piece, pastels were added to complete the sky, horizon, and foreground. Tall grasses printed on fiber dyed tissue;
pastel pencil enhancements;
sprayed with UV/dust protectant;
framed simply without glass.
39” x 13” $1295
The diptych is ready for your framing choice.
63” x 35”
Original has been sold. Watch for similar creations in the 2023 printing season at LindaSnouffer.com
Fiber dyed cotton with grass prints.
Series of 7 panels, all 18” high; widths vary 5-8”
Panels have all been SOLD. Watch for similar creations in summer 2023. LindaSnouffer.com
