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Comment by Dan Mouer on August 29, 2013 at 5:20pm

Gabrielle, sorry I missed this post from you. I consider myself primarily a printmaker.

Comment by Dan Mouer on August 21, 2013 at 3:20pm

This piece is called "Buttercup Bunker Buster" and I made it quickly to send as mail art, but it is actually a mashup of two older, much larger pieces called "Buttercup Bomb" and Buttercup Bomb 2." they can be seen on my online portfolio here:
http://danmouer.zenfolio.com/p909220963/h15c6161f#h15c6161f

http://danmouer.zenfolio.com/p909220963/h15c6161f#h11b2d555

Comment by Dan Mouer on August 21, 2013 at 3:08pm

I sent this little piece off to Piro wrapped in the ugliest mail art envelope. I hope he doesn't tgrow it in the trash before opening it. Haha.

Comment by Amy Irwen on August 21, 2013 at 2:50pm

Ditto what Piro said! The flowers are like little butterflies flitting here and there <3

Comment by Dan Mouer on August 21, 2013 at 1:59pm

Sorry about typos. Should have said placed on my substrate...to receive the ink

Comment by Dan Mouer on August 21, 2013 at 1:56pm

Gabriele the photographic elements that go into my pieces are no more significant than are the scraps of ephemera used by a collage artist or the brushes selected by a painter. I have carried cameras all my long
Iife, and I used the imagery, along with scanned digital images from my own drawing and from found objects as sources of color and texture for building up a digital base image layer by layer. This I then print onto a specially treated transfer film which is placed in my substrate which as been prepared to receive tye ink. In this case that is cotton rag printmaking paper thoroughly moistened with water and alcohol. The print is made by rubbing the ink into the paper fibers using hands, fingers or various tools such as those used for printing Japanese woodblock relief prints.

Comment by Dan Mouer on August 20, 2013 at 7:23pm

My work begins as photography, scanned into the computer, collaged and layered digitally, printed onto a form of transfer film and hand rubbed, much like a relief print, into all-rag printmaker's papers. A lot of my work features flowers and other nature forms. Glad you enjoy this piece.

Comment by PIRO on August 18, 2013 at 5:39pm

This is so beautiful.