A Printing Workshop in Cuba leads to Mixed Media

In 2018 a trip to Cuba to follow in the artist Tomas Marais' footsteps ( he is the topic of my doctoral dissertation) led me to take a printing workshop with Octavio Irving in Havanna, Cuba. The painting which I chose as a basis for my print comes from my Women and Magnolias series. 

The black and white print of the painting ( Sinalco, Dancer) brought a good basis for the brown over print.

In 2020 I resumed work on this print, painting some of the details back into the image and most of all, adding the blue-green tones to pulling out more details of the original painting again without abandoning the surfaces created by both the paint and the imprinted relief from the brown printing plate. 

Thus in 2020 Dancer Two was "born". 

Working at the studio with paintings  from the Magnolia series, 

but taking some of the words into new directions , not however Sinalco, 

a wonderful memory of the lemonade from my childhood days.

                              "Libby"is another altered Magnolia, completed? Who knows?
                                       Maybe it could use some more words as overlay.