Escher was a printmaker! Week 5, day 3 (Monday)

Many people are familiar with the work of MC Escher, who created fantastic (as in fantasy) pictures including impossible objects, tessellations, reflections, Mobius strips, and more. Many of these are of intellectual interest, but some are artistically interesting or attractive as well. I did not realize till recently that Escher’s works were not drawings but prints! He worked with several print media, but lithographs were the most common, with woodcuts second. In the early part of his career, he did fairly prosaic prints of buildings, places and people. It was starting in his 30s that the more interesting stuff began to emerge.

I plan on sharing some of Escher’s more visually interesting and attractive works here, starting today with a mezzotint of a dewdrop on a leaf.

Dewdrop (1948)