Peacock and Buttercups 2024
Andreas Engel

Pen and ink on paper
9″x12″

$1800 Framed.
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Limited edition prints are now available!
Archival giclée prints on Epson Velvet Fine Art Paper
Paper size: 13” x 9.5”
Image size: 11” x 8” (slightly smaller than original)
Limited to 5 prints/image, hand-signed by the artist
Price subject to availability (base price $125)
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A personal note about this piece:

Can color be conveyed in black & white? It’s not an original question, but it’s what I set out to explore with this piece. As a reference, I photographed a peacock at Taft Farms in Housatonic and was mesmerized by the textures of its plumage. For this drawing I placed the peacock in the nearby setting of Housatonic Flats where buttercups and rocket flowers abound, providing a composition of color and textures.

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Phragmites Plume 2024
Andreas Engel

Pen and ink on paper
9″x12″

$850 framed.
Interested? Email your request here.

Limited edition prints are now available!
Archival giclée prints on Epson Velvet Fine Art Paper
Paper size: 13” x 9.5”
Image size: 11” x 8” (slightly smaller than original)
Limited to 5 prints/image, hand-signed by the artist
Price subject to availability (base price $125)
Request print availability and price here.

A personal note about this piece:

I almost didn’t attempt this piece because I wasn’t sure whether I could pack in all the visual information, maintain the softness, and still have it “read” with any kind of compositional definition. What I found in making it was that I had to trust that my marks—abstract in the closeness of the work—would eventually amount to something. In some ways, I was drawing blind—looking at the source and not my hand at times, and not using a visual reference at all for the times I did look at my hand. It feels as if I could continue making marks, indefinitely, sculpting depth into the grass, adding twigs or new areas of contrast…it’s hard to say that it’s finished. –Æ