printmaking

Illustration made with handcarved stamps.

Abstract painting "A refugee leaves his native quarter" whatman, mixed media, acrylic and marker, 54x54 cm, 2023

This is the second lino cut print I made using motifs from my surroundings here in Vienna, Austria. I enjoyed learning this when I was in Art College in Australia back in the day and my passion is now re emerging for it.

Mixed media: Pencil drawing, linocut print, collage, ink drawing

Snake Illustration made with handcarved stamps.

I'm not sure if this falls into a "doodle" but I did draw it on the block and then cut it...

Abstract painting "The Dark City". Canvas on cardboard, acrylic, 30x40 cm, 2023

Sunflaar, as they say round these parts. Mini lino print card and envelope.

Triple moon goddess lino print.

linocut print

It is for my New Year card.

More and more and more linocuts

The monsters we create A collection of creatures born from our impact and existance on Earth. This is a work in progress project, it doesn't yet have a name, but the story becomes more clear every day. Soon I will have more details about it, until then take care, this runner is taking a real shape and it's after you. He is the money maker, the greedy, the selfish buyer of unnecessary things with money he doesn't have. Sounds familyar? 7x7 cm linoprint © Maria ! Balan, 2018

Relief print

Relief print

Oils on primed printmaking paper. 6x8 mini painting.

Monotype printmaking for my New Year's card with rabbits.

Starring Joy Division: Radio, Live Transmission (1979). Let me tell you a story about dancing to the radio to escape the day. About the feeling that "no language, just sound, that's all we need know, to synchronise". About media enriching your life. About media invading your life. Tricolor linoprint using one lino plate. July, 2020.

Soothing delicate blooms

This was originally drawn as a stone lithograph!

Koi fish splashing into the water. Lino print poster, 40x50cm, ink on paper.

I collaged "Krampus is Coming For You" together with my own monoprints as well as one of my drawings of Japanese Noh masks that I cut out of an old sketchbook. For the second piece, I had a drawing of Marie Antoinette as an ice cream cone, so I gave her a dress, put a background of my monoprints on her, etc. Then I added more cherries, and the circle reminded me of a clock, so I inked in the arms accordingly.

Quirky and fun pineapple watercolour and ink illustration.

Relief print