Melissa Salzman

Box of Rain

mizelissa — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:31:30 +0000

I’ve been terribly remiss in not sharing this latest bit of news: My work can now be found on the walls at Box of Rain Boutique located at 1007 W. 36th St in Hampden. All of it is for sale as well! Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Fundraiser for Crystal

mizelissa — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:50:14 +0000

My friend’s little sister, Crystal, was recently diagnosed with a tumor in her brain stem. The family does have health insurance, however, it’s not enough to cover the costs of her medical treatments. Therefore, I and a number of other local artists are donating work to help raise funds to save Crystal’s life. To buy your ticket for the fundraiser and for more information click here

This is the print that I’m donating:

linocut on kitikata

Prints in Print!

mizelissa — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:07:31 +0000

“Oh My Darlin’ I” makes an appearance in The Urbanite! To see more about this image and the others in this series, click here.

MAP: Out of Order

mizelissa — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:46:25 +0000

Today I am going to Maryland Art Place (MAP) to hang this drawing in “Out of Order” http://www.mdartplace.org/

drawing with wooden skewers and ink on found paper

Nude Girls!

mizelissa — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:31:30 +0000

These are a series of prints I did from images of late 19th-early 20th century erotica. They are all linocuts (a method of relief printing) on kitikata (a type of Japanese rice paper which lends itself well to relief printing). I love the marriage of the graphic nature of the images to the graphic quality of this particular printing medium.

linocut on kitikata

A Loving Embrace

mizelissa — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:01:50 +0000

Let’s talk a little bit more about process. These next few proofs/prints show part of the process of an intaglio print. Again, these are etchings and used hard-ground and aquatint to make the image. I wound up printing them on colored paper. I think you can see through the progression of images here how I came to the final result. I do like to draw on my proofs; it makes me feel less precious about the work and helps me to get ideas of how I want my final image to look.

silkworm spinning a cocoon

mizelissa — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:13:22 +0000

One of the many things I love about printmaking is the ability to make one image look an infinite numbers of ways. This is an etching on a found plate with hard ground and aquatint. These three prints were done using viscosity printing techniques. The first color was carded on and wiped with the tarleton rag like a regular intaglio plate. The second color, instead of being on a second plate, is rolled on with a hard roller and ink that is more viscous than the ink used for the first color.

This print is the same plate but instead of using the viscosity method, I used chine-collé to make the second color. Chine-collé is when an image is printed on a piece of paper that is glued to another piece of paper. So here the image is printed on a colored piece of paper which is glued to a piece of white Rives BFK with wheat paste.

Clementines

mizelissa — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:54:56 +0000

These are titled, Oh, My Darlin’ I, II and III respectively. They are color screenprints I finished printing in November 2009. I made the stencils for each color using drawing fluid and screen-filler. Screen-printing in particular is about form and color and creating an image from the marriage of these elements. These images were in part inspired by the subtle sensuality found in Edward Weston’s “Natural Studies” and partly because I happened to have a bunch of clementines in my kitchen at just the right moment.