5" x 5" pastel over monoprint
Dana vanderHeyden often greets with the word "Bonjour." After all, she was a Professor of French! This piece epitomized for me the friendliness of that word.
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About this series
Making Their Marks
in honor of
Marc and Dana vanderHeyden
2007 - 2008
pastel over monoprint
by Mickey Myers
A Series of 63
Making Their Marks is a series of 45 pastel images, created by Vermont artist Mickey Myers over eight months in 2007 and 2008. Completed to honor the tenure of Marc and Dana vanderHeyden as President and First Lady of Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont, Making Their Marks consists of landscape images abstracted from nature.
Process: pastel over monoprint
Initially, 45 monoprint images were drawn on a 5" x 5" plexiglass plate with oil bars (also called oil sticks,) and printed on Stonehenge paper, using a Whelan Press at The Canasta Press in Johnson, Vermont.
After the monoprint surfaces had dried, Myers drew into the images with pastel, using a variety of soft pastel brands, including Unison, Mt. Vision, Maimeri, Sennelier, Townsend, Nupastels, and Sennelier iridescent pastels.
This series began as an experiment, and each page and image were treated using experimental techniques, rather than a set or uniform formula for technique and materials. The Stonehenge paper was purposefully utilized in its natural state, and not primed with water or any other substance. The monoprint image edges were taped prior to drawing into them with pastel, and then the tape was removed, in some cases, leaving evidence in the margins of the paper, not apparent in the finished work when it is matted to the edge.
The plexiglass plate for monoprint was primed with extender base.
The images have not been "fixed," and the artist prefers that they not be fixed in the future. The resulting pastel dust "debris" is anticipated to be minimal, and the lack of fixitive assures that the pastel will maintain its natural properties and luminosity, rather than being reduced to a matte finish.
2007 - 2008
#1 of this series was printed and drawn in early 2007. #2 - 45 were printed in July, 2007. The drawing began in the fall of 2007, and concluded over the Christmas holidays of that year, and in early January of 2008. All the pieces were signed and numbered in February 2008.
Marc and Dana vanderHeyden: Marc vanderHeyden served as President of Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont for 11 years, concluding in 2007. Mickey Myers was introduced to the vanderHeydens when she was Executive Director of Helen Day Art Center in Stowe, Vermont, by Marcelle Leahy, wife of United States Senator Patrick Leahy. Mrs. Leahy was advising the Helen Day Art Center about an exhibition of contemporary Iranian art, which she had been instrumental in bringing to the U. S. and to Vermont. She suggested the vanderHeydens were in a unique position to advise the exhibition also, which proved to be the beginning of an exchange of exhibits and mutual support between The Helen Day Art Center and Saint Michael's College over the next five years.
In anticipating the departure of the vanderHeydens from Saint Michael's, Myers intended to make a token of her appreciation for their tenure in the form of a pastel to present in spring of 2007. However, an accident prevented her from working in the studio until later that year. So by the time she actually began the project, she had missed the date of their departure by such a wide margin, she was able to allow herself the time to develop not just a single image, but then entire series, which has resulted.
in honor of
Marc and Dana vanderHeyden
2007 - 2008
pastel over monoprint
by Mickey Myers
A Series of 63
Making Their Marks is a series of 45 pastel images, created by Vermont artist Mickey Myers over eight months in 2007 and 2008. Completed to honor the tenure of Marc and Dana vanderHeyden as President and First Lady of Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont, Making Their Marks consists of landscape images abstracted from nature.
Process: pastel over monoprint
Initially, 45 monoprint images were drawn on a 5" x 5" plexiglass plate with oil bars (also called oil sticks,) and printed on Stonehenge paper, using a Whelan Press at The Canasta Press in Johnson, Vermont.
After the monoprint surfaces had dried, Myers drew into the images with pastel, using a variety of soft pastel brands, including Unison, Mt. Vision, Maimeri, Sennelier, Townsend, Nupastels, and Sennelier iridescent pastels.
This series began as an experiment, and each page and image were treated using experimental techniques, rather than a set or uniform formula for technique and materials. The Stonehenge paper was purposefully utilized in its natural state, and not primed with water or any other substance. The monoprint image edges were taped prior to drawing into them with pastel, and then the tape was removed, in some cases, leaving evidence in the margins of the paper, not apparent in the finished work when it is matted to the edge.
The plexiglass plate for monoprint was primed with extender base.
The images have not been "fixed," and the artist prefers that they not be fixed in the future. The resulting pastel dust "debris" is anticipated to be minimal, and the lack of fixitive assures that the pastel will maintain its natural properties and luminosity, rather than being reduced to a matte finish.
2007 - 2008
#1 of this series was printed and drawn in early 2007. #2 - 45 were printed in July, 2007. The drawing began in the fall of 2007, and concluded over the Christmas holidays of that year, and in early January of 2008. All the pieces were signed and numbered in February 2008.
Marc and Dana vanderHeyden: Marc vanderHeyden served as President of Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont for 11 years, concluding in 2007. Mickey Myers was introduced to the vanderHeydens when she was Executive Director of Helen Day Art Center in Stowe, Vermont, by Marcelle Leahy, wife of United States Senator Patrick Leahy. Mrs. Leahy was advising the Helen Day Art Center about an exhibition of contemporary Iranian art, which she had been instrumental in bringing to the U. S. and to Vermont. She suggested the vanderHeydens were in a unique position to advise the exhibition also, which proved to be the beginning of an exchange of exhibits and mutual support between The Helen Day Art Center and Saint Michael's College over the next five years.
In anticipating the departure of the vanderHeydens from Saint Michael's, Myers intended to make a token of her appreciation for their tenure in the form of a pastel to present in spring of 2007. However, an accident prevented her from working in the studio until later that year. So by the time she actually began the project, she had missed the date of their departure by such a wide margin, she was able to allow herself the time to develop not just a single image, but then entire series, which has resulted.
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- Making Their Marks #48 "Adieu"
- Making Their Marks #43 "Eucalyptus"
- Making Their Marks #46 "Remembering"
- Making Their Marks #9 "The Autumn Poets"
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- Making Their Marks #12 "Magenta Marie"
- Making Their Marks #14 "Reflecting on the Day"
- Making Their Marks #16 "The Silence of Stars"
- Making Their Marks #15 "Talking to the Moon"
- Making Their Marks #18 Luminaria
- Making Their Marks #19 "The Scent of Winter"
- Making Their Marks #20 "Vespers"
- Making Their Marks #21 "Testimony"
- Delivery Day
- Making Their Marks #23 "Convocation"
- Making Their Marks #22 "Incantation"
- Making Their Marks #24 "Passage"
- Making Their Marks #25 "Jubilation"
- Making Their Marks #29 "Rainy Day"
- Making Their Marks #30 "Old Orchard in October"
- Making Their Marks #32 "A Walk on the Moon"
- Making Their Marks #22 "Get Well Flowers"
- Making Their Marks #35 "South Wind Stirs the Pond"
- Making Their Marks # 34 "A Measure of Grace"
- Making Their Marks #36 "Neptune"
- Making Their Marks #37 "Quiver"
- Making Their Marks #57 "Purple Dusk"
- Making Their Marks #58 "Deep and Lovely Autumn Quiet"
- Making Their Marks #59 "Velvet Mountain"
- Making Their Marks #62 "A Flush of Rose"
- Making Their Marks #39 "Above the Trees"
- Making Their Marks #40 "Night Light"
- Making Their Marks #42 "Taken by Trees"
- Making Their Marks #41 "Reverie"
- Making Their Marks #5 "Sandia Mountains"
- Making Their Marks #12 "Oasis"
- Making Their Marks #2 "Bonjour"
- Making Their Marks #28 "Wings"
- Mickey with Marc and Dana vanderHeyden
- Making Their Marks #38 "Harp of the Wind"
- Making Their Marks #27 "Light Laughs the Breeze"
- Making Their Marks #1 Harmony
- Making Their Marks # 31 "In Memory of Benazir Bhutto"
- Making Their Marks #45 Raspberry Mountain
- Making Their Marks #44 "Encore"
- Making Their Marks #3 "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose"
- Making Their Marks #1 Night Watch
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