Samuel palmer print report

Samuel palmer

Painter, etcher, printmaker and writer. I have been quite interested in how writing can influence art work so that it grabs my interest straight away.

So first i looked at some of his Etchings...

The Bellman, Etching

I like the fact that this one is in a circle in the centre of the paper! the negative space really draws me into the image and what is going on.

The Lonely Tower 1879, reprinted 1973.
Etching on paper

I was really drawn to this one ( the lonely tower). I love how dark this is, the detail is very interesting to me because I find when I go darker with my work, I loose the detail, that is what I always thought but, do I?

By saying less, do you say more?

An impression of something is more visually enchanting because your mind makes up the missing bits? Apparently so!

So how does it make me feel?

It makes me feel calm, something I needed right now.

It is beautiful. The low moon in the sky, the stars and the way the light it hitting the ground. I can't get over the detail of this... it is almost poetic and romantic. I love the way the light is hitting the tree trunk on the right of the etching.

Since we have been doing more etchings i know how hard it is, and the way we do etching in class is completely different! so i am astonished by the amount of detail and passion put into this! Palmers etchings are beautiful and really make me FEEL. I am starting to find that the more i look at these older works the more i appreciate them and how much emotion went into them. It is really making me think about my own prints and how i can express feeling in them.

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