Melanie Steffl

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I paint with oils, print with ink, sculpt with clay, play my violin, grow animals and vegetables, travel, dream and theorize. And then I write all about it here.

Sunday, May 4, 2014

Learning to Etch

Study #1

Study #2

Last month I took the opportunity to work at the awesome Pittsburgh print shop
Artists Image Resource ( http://www.artistsimageresource.org/ ). I have always wanted to learn how to etch, so thanks to them, I got started on this. I am looking forward to spending more time utilizing that important resource and making more etchings! 
My idea started from a painting that I re-did out of my "Romania" series.  The new image is a combination of two very influential places I have experienced. One, the Pacific Northwest, where my husband is from and I have lived for a number of years, and secondly, from the memory of my time during a residency in Transylvania.


Meeting Nuhlimkilaka (The Bringer of Confusion)
Oil on panel, 16x20

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