POSTCARD ART: Seventh Posting

Art, Coffee Table, Comics, printmaking May 27, 2020

Continuing my Blogging with yet another post profiling the design and production of my art postcards that I have been doing for quite some time now…see links to the previous six POSTCARD posts below. On this occasion I am looking at assorted batches I have made in the past going right back to the beginning of design and production of them in 2006 and subsequent batches from the following few years.

Title: Pink, Purple and Black-©2006 Dr. Michael Hill. A lot of rubber stamping going on here like dancing to a visual cacophony of pounding(I do stamp to music sometimes)…the repetitive stamping in places results in the layers of ink gradually fading and even running out.
Title: Abstract No.14-©2007 Dr. Michael Hill. Another instance of percussive printing and the parallel linear overlaying to a Japanese language character. 
Title: The Jewel Box-©2007 Dr. Michael Hill. This set is gentler and more composed and offset with a rectangular tracing of coloured carbon pink pencil.
The Graphic Guitar-©2008 Dr. Michael Hill. Muddled shape is all wet and inky and brown.
Mountainous blue view landscape-©2012 Dr. Michael Hill. And now a couple of cards in the vertical format, above and below, steep and blue.
Mountainous blue view landscape-©2012 Dr. Michael Hill. Same, but a bit different…from the variations on a theme box.
And heading towards the finish of this little set, Abstract Pink on Blue-©2010 Dr. Michael Hill…another from the crumbling shapes domain.
To conclude this post, we move from the abstract to the figurative, Black Bird Landing-©2011 Dr. Michael Hill.

All photos postcards, postcard art and printmaking by Dr. Michael Hill aka Doctor Comics.

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Creator and former Director of the Master of Animation course at the University of Technology, Sydney, Dr. Michael Hill has a Master's degree in animation and a PhD 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 donated 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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