“Chadds Ford Barn” — Clay Monoprint & Acrylic © Andrew T. Smith of Visual Realia, LLC.
Thanks to the Brandywine Museum of Art staff for the opportunity to attend a plein air day in October (2024) at the historic Kuerner Farm in Chadds Ford.
Read MoreClay dries quickly — an obstacle the clay monoprint artist can not ignore.
Read More"Renaissance Town II" - Clay Monoprint, Acrylic Paint, Copper Mica, & Calcium Carbonate by Andrew T. Smith
Clay Monoprints are a relatively new art form, but they were formed from the skills of generations of potters and printmakers.
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City’s Edge, ©2024 Andrew T. Smith. Clay Monoprint, Watercolor, Watercolor Pencil, and Acrylic
Due to the relatively short history of clay monoprints as a medium, creating one always feels like an experiment. This is particularly true as I try to see how the prints interact with other mediums.
Read MoreRenaissance Town II, ©2023 Andrew T. Smith. Clay monoprint, acrylic, copper mica, and calcium carbonate.
Post-impressionistic towns are rising from my matrix.
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The "unentitled" artists discuss the exhibit setup.
Andrew Smith of Visual Realia is one of seven artists who created collaborative works on the theme of “unentitled” for this new exhibit in York, Pennsylvania.
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A YouTube video discussing numerous clay monoprints by Andrew Smith of Visual Realia is now available at this link. The prints included are being exhibited throughout 2023 in various locations.
Read More“Finite Motion” - Andrew T. Smith© 2023
“Finite Motion” mixed media work by Andrew T. Smith
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The clay monoprint artist designs their work on a slab of clay known as the matrix, shown here.
The clay slab that a clay monoprint artist designs on gradually becomes a diary of their work.
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“Patchwork” — Clay Monoprint by Andrew Smith of the Visual Realia studio.
The Past just left. Its remnants, I claim, are mostly fiction. We're stranded here with the threadbare patchwork of memory, you with yours, I with mine."
— Denis Johnson
"Patchwork"
Clay Monoprint on Pellon
8" x 10"
Andrew Smith / Visual Realia Studio
The square and rectangle blocks, newly added for this work, interplay with the large central yellow diamond and green and blue diagonal stripes, all remnants (patches) of previous works.
For the new elements, I purposely wanted to utilize my lesser chosen color slips, including siennas, umbers, red iron oxide, French rose madder, French yellow ochre, and the onion skin dyed slip.
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