POSTCARD ART: Second Posting

Art April 26, 2016

This post continues the profiling of the production of my handmade art postcards. These works were created from a combination of drawing and printmaking in small editions of 10 to 50. It must be stated that each of the cards is an original print, or monoprint…similar in design but with no exact duplicate. For example the three prints from the Landscape No. 2 edition below, whilst carrying the same title, number and technique, all bear some visual differences. My first postcard post was from the Abstract series…the postcards in this post are from the subsequent Landscape series. Some have abstract elements. With few exceptions these cards fall within the postcard size dimensions of 10cm x 15cm.

Scan 2
Landscape No.2-composite roller print-©2008  Dr. Michael Hill (a.k.a. Doctor Comics).
Scan 1
Landscape No.2-composite roller print-©2008  Dr. Michael Hill (a.k.a. Doctor Comics).
Scan 4
Landscape No.2-composite roller print-©2008  Dr. Michael Hill (a.k.a. Doctor Comics).

In the postcard art above I employed a restricted palette in comparison to the Landscape No.3 and No.4 cards which followed (see below in this post). These have a combination of textures that range from watery and weedy to grassy and sandy surfaces.

Scan 3
Landscape No.1-composite roller print-©2008  Dr. Michael Hill (a.k.a. Doctor Comics).
Scan 7
Landscape No.3-print plus paint and pastel-©2008  Dr. Michael Hill (a.k.a. Doctor Comics).
Scan 6
Landscape No.3-print plus paint and pastel-©2008  Dr. Michael Hill (a.k.a. Doctor Comics).
Scan 5
Landscape No.4-composite print from various materials-©2009  Dr. Michael Hill (a.k.a. Doctor Comics).

UPDATE MARCH 6, 2017: Below are are photos of my completed art postcards…bundled up for carting to the gallery and then spread out on a display table for sale.

Art postcards sorted and stacked for cartage to gallery.
Art postcards sorted and stacked for cartage to gallery. (Photo by Dr. Michael Hill)
Those cards spread across a table in the gallery for sale.
Those cards spread across a table in the gallery for sale. (Photo by Dr. Michael Hill)

I can’t repeat often enough how much I enjoy the process of design and production of my art postcards!

(All text, photos and artwork-©2016 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics).

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Co-creator and former Director of the Master of Animation, Master of Design, and Visual Communication Design courses at the University of Technology, Sydney, Dr. Michael Hill has a Master's degree in animation and a Ph.D. in comics studies, prompting his introduction on ABC Radio as “Doctor Comics”. A member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Comic Art, and former member of the Comics Grid Journal of Comics Scholarship and the Advisory Committee of the Q-Collection Comic Book Preservation Project, he has delivered public lectures on Comics, Anime and Manga and held academic directorships in Interdisciplinary Studies, Animation, Design and Visual Communication. Having retired from academia and completing the donation of his collection of research materials on Australian alternative comics to the National Library of Australia, he is now active in the artistic domain, writing, drawing and printmaking, creating art postcards and prints and his own graphic novel: Blotting Paper: The Recollected Graphical Impressions of Doctor Comics.

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