Hallie Edlund is an art student in her senior year, planning to launch a career in Printmaking.  Her blog chronicles inspirations and experiments with the different types of techniques she uses and is learning.

What are your goals?

My short term goal is to finish my bachelor’s degree at Towson University in Printmaking, and to apply to the Tamarind Institute in New Mexico to study lithography and earn the status of “master printer.”  Long term, I would like to work at a major press and make collaborative prints, other artist’s prints, and my own art.

What are you working on now?

Right now I am about to start a linoleum print of a skeleton I had drawn a while back, and add to it an image of the three-headed dog that guards Hades.  It’s going to be one of my larger prints with lots of detail, and like most of my work, in black and white.  I am also currently working on a graphite on stone litho that is a portrait of my friend’s father.  He actually took the picture that is the source material for this print, but it’s really an amazing shot.  I don’t usually work on stone, so this will be different for me and exciting to see the (hopefully amazing) results.

What techniques do you use?

I work mainly in plate lithography, and also enjoy screenprinting and making other prints such as collagraphs.  I definitely think that color is the easiest in screenprinting, as you can see what you’re doing instead of printing in reverse through the press.  I recently started making watercolor monoprints with my screen and the results were really cool.  You can even use markers or watercolor pencils to create a monotype on a screen, and I like using this technique for backgrounds.  For the type of art I create, which is mainly drawing based, lithography flatters my style the best.  I like to use chine colle on a lot of pieces, which is a pasted paper technique similar to collage.

What inspires you?

I like to do portraits and works that involve storytelling, symbolism and folklore.  I am also inspired by other printmakers and my friends and family (who usually end up in a portrait). My favorite artists are Larry Sellers and Ralph Steadman.

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