"The Hare" collagraph print was created at the same time as "Two Foxes." The process for preparing the plate, a 9 x 12 size, involved a wealth of materials: cardboard for the deep embossed focus areas, glues and gesso medium for building up a secondary layer, and some textural paints with a variety of embedded materials for an additional effect on the ground portion of the print. Paint was applied with an old toothbrush for the tricky nooks, stipple brushes, brayers, and paint brushes. As with many collagraph prints, a variety of relief and intaglio applications and removals of ink results in the final print. This short edition of four prints also features some hand-coloring with gouache to bring out the main elements. This will be showing at the group show in a couple weeks as we as a few available in my shop in the upcoming days.
