FRANCY BLUMHAGEN - painter, printmaker
Francy Blumhagen has been making handmade prints, mixed media paintings, and collages for about 40 years and has shown her work throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Working with handmade papers and acrylic paints, Blumhagen creates layered textured images of birds and wildlife in the Salish Sea region. Each piece is a thoughtful meditation on the animals that surround us, expressed in bold colorful imagery that give us a deeper appreciation of our environment.
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Francy explains: “My inspirations for my work come from the sights and sounds that surround me everyday as I walk my dogs in the hills and forests and beaches of Whidbey Island.“
Her mixed media includes many kinds of pencils, crayons, acrylic paint, metallic powders, ink, and some wax. The collaging is done with paper she has painted on or marked in a variety of ways, and then cut to fit the imagery. The paintings reflect ideas about what she sees — not literal, but nor are they completely abstract.
25.5” x 19.5” - Framed 37” x 29”
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Francy describes the process of botanical monoprinting as follows:
“I ink my plexiglass plate, lay the actual plant onto the ink, cover with a piece of highly textured rice paper and pull the first print. In this print, the plant acts as a stencil. Then I remove the plant, layer a dampened sheet of Rives BFK on the plate and pull the final print. This print is the impression that the plant and the rice paper have left behind on the inked plate. It's a really fun process--I usually can reuse the plants many times and never know quite what I will get. It becomes kind of addicting.”
25.5” x 19.5” - Framed 37” x 29”
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< Back to Francy Blumhagen’s page
Francy describes the process of botanical monoprinting as follows:
“I ink my plexiglass plate, lay the actual plant onto the ink, cover with a piece of highly textured rice paper and pull the first print. In this print, the plant acts as a stencil. Then I remove the plant, layer a dampened sheet of Rives BFK on the plate and pull the final print. This print is the impression that the plant and the rice paper have left behind on the inked plate. It's a really fun process--I usually can reuse the plants many times and never know quite what I will get. It becomes kind of addicting.”
25.5” x 19.5” - Framed 37” x 29”
Click image to enlarge
< Back to Francy Blumhagen’s page
Francy describes the process of botanical monoprinting as follows:
“I ink my plexiglass plate, lay the actual plant onto the ink, cover with a piece of highly textured rice paper and pull the first print. In this print, the plant acts as a stencil. Then I remove the plant, layer a dampened sheet of Rives BFK on the plate and pull the final print. This print is the impression that the plant and the rice paper have left behind on the inked plate. It's a really fun process--I usually can reuse the plants many times and never know quite what I will get. It becomes kind of addicting.”