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Ashley Salinas

I enjoy creating art from life. I feel that we are the sum of our experiences and that each moment is an opportunity to become something more. I think we should cherish the mundane, the every day, and the daily routines as they are the root of our personality, the fundatmental base of who we are, and which contain the most comfortable moments of our lives.

Aside from subject matter I like to blur the border of media. I felt I had reached a peak in my drypoint line drawings. I have always been drawn to charcoal; the softness of the tone; the fragility of the medium. At any moment the marks could be blown or rubbed off the paper. I felt it would be a great achievement to create a reproducible print which captured the very essence of charcoal. Working with hand tools only using routlettes, sandpaper, a drypoint needle, and a scraper/burnisher I have successfully achieved my goal and feel that I have much more to learn.

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I enjoy creating art from life. I feel that we are the sum of our experiences and that each moment is an opportunity to become something more. I think we should cherish the mundane, the every day, and the daily routines as they are the root of our personality, the fundatmental base of who we are, and which contain the most comfortable moments of our lives.

Aside from subject matter I like to blur the border of media. I felt I had reached a peak in my drypoint line drawings. I have always been drawn to charcoal; the softness of the tone; the fragility of the medium. At any moment the marks could be blown or rubbed off the paper. I felt it would be a great achievement to create a reproducible print which captured the very essence of charcoal. Working with hand tools only using routlettes, sandpaper, a drypoint needle, and a scraper/burnisher I have successfully achieved my goal and feel that I have much more to learn.

Peekie Lost in the NYC Laundry
Drypoint
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Birthday Rose
Drypoint with Aquatint
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Bedscape
Drypoint with Roulette
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Mistletoe
Drypoint
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Spring Flowers
Drypoint
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Delicious Fungi
Aquatint with Roulette
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Letter Blocks
Drypoint and Aquatint
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Shoe Strings
Drypoint
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Bipolar
Aquatint
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Artichoke
staged aquatint
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New Leaf
Hand Colored Drypoint
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8/10/2004
Drypoint
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peekie
2 Plate Drypoint and Aquatint
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Bouquet II
Drypoint
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Bouquet I
Drypoint
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August 10th
Drypoint with Chine Colle
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Consumed
Drypoint
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Paper Rolls
Drypoint
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Type Setting
Drypoint
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Packing for Vegas
Drypoint
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Laundry Folds
Drypoint
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If They Fit
Drypoint with Chine Colle and Hand Stitching
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Blood Sugar
Drypoint with Chine Colle and Hand Stitching
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