printmaking

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

Block print and ink drawing, digitally colored.

I like this guy! Illustrated portrait resulting from my illustration printmaking techniques demo video. Inked up a piece of plexiglass and had some fun. Monoprint (or is it a monotype) + Adobe Fresco for the color finish.

Pencil drawing, ink, markers, linocut print, colored pencils.

Illustration made with handcarved stamps.

An etching from my university fine art days.

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

More and more and more linocuts

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.

I'm trying a new subtractive technique to get black tones in my drawing, then watercoloring over top. It's sort of a printmaking approach. Sort of.

Monotype with India Ink.

Woodcut of a lotus flower. White ink on green Canson paper.

Teeny pentagram lino print car and envelope.

Lino cut candle print for Imbolc 2024.

Lino print, 50x40cm. Black offset ink on Fabriano paper.

Pink lotus flower. Woodcut printed with white ink on tissue paper.

Collagraph print painted with colored inks.

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

Linocut from my previous post

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

Lino cut A7 pumpkin print for Samhain.

Upside world & underwater nature doodle

Snake Illustration made with handcarved stamps.

More little lino prints. I added another acorn and a leaf. I may add more leaves.

Experimenting with linocut techniques digitally...