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Stone Lithography is a complicated and labor-intensive technique of painting with grease on large stone slabs, which are then used to make prints. Edna Hibel is considered a
Master Stone Lithographer and master colorist who has produced over 600 editions so far, a rare achievement for any artist. Edna Hibel loves to experiment, so lithographs on porcelain are only one example of the many innovations she has created in her time.
Edna Hibel is known to work on any surface that will catch paint, and her works appear on wood, silk, shells, plaster, Japanese rice paper, and clothing in addition to the more standard canvas. Hibel creates her original stone lithographs in the classical methodology.
The artist draws on a series of very smoothly-ground bavarian limestones with a grease-based pencil, a liquid with brushes, and with sharp objects which permit her to scrape away the ink she has drawn onto the stone. Each stone is millions of years old, and has a texture that is seen through the ink on the paper.
The artist draws a key stone (or major) image, and then background and additional details are drawn on other stones. Edna Hibel generally uses one stone for each color in the resulting artwork. She creates lithographs with up to 32 colors -- more than any other artist since the medium was invented in 1795.
Section (sometimes referred to as Series) A,B,C, or I, II, III –
Because of the variety of effects she is able to achieve with the lithographic process by varying the papers, inks and transparency of color, Hibel often finds more than one combination that pleases her for a particular lithograph. Rather than eliminate all, but one section or series,the edition is developed into more than one section. For example: II 1/14 ed. 250 means that this is number one of only 14 impressions in Section II, and there are a total of 250 prints in all the sections of this subject.
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