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Flicker Sky

Flicker Sky

Linocut Print (ID: A35848)
Designed by Barbara Stikker
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This is a reduction linocut collage. The bird, a Northern Flicker, was created through the reduction process. In this process, a single linoleum plate is used for the entire image, and is cut (or reduced) in stages to create a multi-colored print. The first color, here a light beige, was printed using the whole plate, with only a minimum number of cuts to allow the white paper to show through. The plate was then carved and printed in the next color, a darker beige, to allow the lighter color to show through in the cut areas. With this method, the total area of the block is successively reduced as each new color is added, and the final color printed, here black, is the darkest. The number of prints in the edition is determined before printing the first color as the image cannot be reprinted.

The bird was cut out and glued, using PVF glue, onto a linoleum print of an oak branch that had a second, uniform yellow drop applied with a plexiglass plate. Both images were printed on acid-free paper. Limited edition of 11.

The image size is 12 inches by 12 inches. There is some variation in the paper size.
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Barbara Stikker

"I am a printmaker because I love to draw, and traditional printing techniques allow me to translate my love into vivid, textural, multiple images. I am interested in combining the lines on the plate with color and paper to create carefully crafted images that reflect the beauty of the natural world around me."

Printmaker Barbara Stikker creates abstracted representational images in her San Francisco studio. Working from observation, she translates photos into distinctive images. Stikker is inspired, in part, by her volunteer work at a wildlife rehabilitation facility. As she assists in the treatment of songbirds, she has grown to appreciate their beauty, individuality, and intelligence.

Barbara Stikker works across a number of traditional printmaking platforms, including linoleum, etching, dry point, and photogravure. She creates small edition hand-pulled prints that require varied inking in a number of successive passes through the press to create layered, complex images.

A lifelong artist, Barbara Stikker has studied printmaking at the College of Marin and City College of San Francisco. In addition, she has regularly participated in etching workshops with the master printers of Crown Point Press in San Francisco. She is a member of the Graphic Arts Workshop and the California Society of Printmakers.

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