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White Rock Canyon. Monotype. Image size 14.5 x 19 inches. Sheet size 22 x 30 inches. Produced for Needlewatcher Editions by Hand Graphics, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In May and October of this year, master-printer Michael Costello of Hand Graphics in Santa Fe gided me through the process of producing a series of memories and meditations on my fieldwork along the Rio Grande del Norte between Rio Grande Gorge near Taos, and White Rock Canyon near Los Alamos. Selecting two images from my Grand River sketchbook I developed a new composition that compressed page-spread panoramas into a different and less directional aspect-ratio. Additional help came from Thomas Park of Orion Studios, Santa Fe, who was able to transfer my line drawings onto mulberry paper, which Michael used to apply a Chine-colle substrate to the monoprints. Monotypes were developed by making additional drops on ghost prints. To clarify any confusion over the difference, a monoprint is a unique impression that may share elements with other prints. A monotype is a unique impression that repeats no elements that might appear in other prints. A selection of twenty-four out of the thirty works we produced have been uploaded here. Have a look.

http://www.mcelhinneyart.com/monoprints/

Grand River Sketchbook, on view in the exhibition Reimagining New Mexico. June 28-August 3, 2019. Courtesy Gerald Peters Gallery. Santa Fe, NM. Cloth-covered Solander box made by Mita Saldana, Against the Grain Bookbinding. Albuquerque, NM

White Rock Canyon, Late Afternoon. Journal-painting. Watercolor on paper. 3.5 x 10.5 inches. 2019

Confluence of the Rio Pueblo de Taos. Journal-painting. Watercolor on paper. 3.5 x 10.5 inches. 2019