Four Dogwood Flowers

Four Dogwood Flowers All 16 Panels - 4 Dogwood Flowers

Four Dogwood Flowers

27" x 27" serigraph on white Strathmore Bristol paper

Framed Price $600 Catalog No. 81-1

individual unframed price $40 each

4-Panels unframed price (one flower) $120 per set Four Panels - 1 Flower

16-Panels unframed price (four flowers) $385 per set All 16 Panels - 4 Dogwood Flowers

"What can I do with a 3 x 5 index card and a compass?" This is what I asked myself as I began to design this early silkscreen image. For starters, I traced the index card's perimeter with a pencil and then duplicated that idea a bit further away. You can see this quite easily in the single panel print. The arcs (drawn by the compass) were nice arcs because they allowed for a broad expanse of three (3) colors when printing time came. It was with these three colors; (red, yellow and green) that I would then incorporate TINTING and SHADING based on where the index card shapes appeared "under" the arcs. I intentionally included an area where NO INTERSECTION of arcs with index card(s) occurred. This was good because it enabled my "shades of grey" areas to be included. I will leave my "shades of grey" explanation for another time. Those who are interested, can find such a discussion in the text for "Inspirations in Focus," another silkscreen print. Altogether, there are 14 colors. Yellow has 3. Green has 2. Blue has 2. Orange has 1. Red has 3. Gray has 3. Black is considered a member of the "gray group."

I decided arbitrarily to print 16 images, thinking in the back of my mind it may be interesting to see what a composite of all 16 images might look like if I played with the orientation of them. Sure enough, if the yellow corners were all placed on the floor so that they all touched, then there appeared quite by accident -- a flower. The Dogwood like flower (or pinwheel) was even more interesting to look at if I compiles them three more times like this, thereby creating four flowers. What I usually DO NOT tell people is what happened after I excitedly framed all 16 panels in the same frame. The truth is out though. Attaching sixteen 8" x 8" panels to a 16 windowed mat is not as easy as it sounds. The resulting assembly buckled under its own weight and I resorted to unframing the entire piece. It was not until years later that I began to sell the original panel members, of which ONE (1) remains.

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