Covid Chaos Red (40 x 80in)

COVID Chaos lockdown blues. This piece is part of an ongoing series of works on paper that explore my intuitive and sometimes outright feelings the pandemic had on me personally. Hand printed by the artist silk screen and hand painted industrial and military enamels, watercolor and gouache on the finest archival hot press or cold press cotton rag, 225 gsm/15 mil museum quality paper. The paper is produced by Arches Papers. Arches paper have been in operation since 1492 in Vosges region of France. The Arches paper mill is now the only paper mil in France to manufacture all its fine art and printing papers using cylinder moulds. The technique implemented through the editions I first employed in the late 1980s. This includes, hand printed mono prints using a custom, hand built printing press which uses my automobile to apply pressure with incredible accuracy. In addition, silkscreen, dry point etching and techniques I learned first hand working at Mixografia in east Los Angeles. Painted a