sf_roma
September 5th, 2015, 09:42 PM
Hello everybody,
I tend not to post my work - but at the San Francisco Pen Show last weekend, the feedback I received on my work while buying new fountain pens made me think you'd be interested.
I was a woodblock printmaker for years, studied in Tokyo, and was born and raised in Rome, Italy. I was an artist in residence at the San Francisco Asian Art museum in 2004 and have been showing internationally for 15 years.
My recent works are ink drawings pairing excerpts of trees and flora with excerpts of contemporary poetry. This is a piece inspired by the poetry of Cid Corman.
I do an initial drawing in pencil after extensive preparatory drawings from life (I've spent a lot of time admiring chrysanthemums!)
http://i.imgur.com/ExFdpyA.jpg
Then I mix purple ink and apply it with an inexpensive Lamy with some flex.
All my work is done with either fountain pens or dip pens. I mix my own inks from an extensive pigment and ink collection I've collected from all over the world.
http://i.imgur.com/KiI0XVh.jpg
And the Corman poem I've been reading and re-reading:
http://i.imgur.com/H8BZHeY.png
Ciao!
Marco Flavio
I tend not to post my work - but at the San Francisco Pen Show last weekend, the feedback I received on my work while buying new fountain pens made me think you'd be interested.
I was a woodblock printmaker for years, studied in Tokyo, and was born and raised in Rome, Italy. I was an artist in residence at the San Francisco Asian Art museum in 2004 and have been showing internationally for 15 years.
My recent works are ink drawings pairing excerpts of trees and flora with excerpts of contemporary poetry. This is a piece inspired by the poetry of Cid Corman.
I do an initial drawing in pencil after extensive preparatory drawings from life (I've spent a lot of time admiring chrysanthemums!)
http://i.imgur.com/ExFdpyA.jpg
Then I mix purple ink and apply it with an inexpensive Lamy with some flex.
All my work is done with either fountain pens or dip pens. I mix my own inks from an extensive pigment and ink collection I've collected from all over the world.
http://i.imgur.com/KiI0XVh.jpg
And the Corman poem I've been reading and re-reading:
http://i.imgur.com/H8BZHeY.png
Ciao!
Marco Flavio