the art of HAIG DEMARJIAN: "Mercury... password for ACTION!"

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March 12, 2011

"Mercury... password for ACTION!"

That old ad slogan rang through my head as this Cougar sprang out of the studio today...

"Blue Cougar", unique hand-colored lithograph.

I hand-colored it because the straight-up lithograph didn't quite have the pizzazz I had intended (see below). The color really gets it across for me.

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Print Portfolios 2009

This gallery features editioned prints completed in 2009 and included in various portfolio exchanges.

the BRUNSWICK HORRORS

This gallery contains examples of drawings created on September 27, 2008 when I was invited to Bowdoin College as Visiting Artist for an upper-level studio class. This 12 hour art-making session was inspired by my own 2006 "Curse of the Haunted Tower" marathon and exhibition.

GALLERY 07-08

assorted bits from 2007 & 2008

EERIE HORRORS from beneath the VAULT of DREAD

Installation views of my 2007 solo exhibition at the Winfisky Gallery, which included the debut of the 18-foot long "Big Painting" and Creep-O-Vision, a digital wall-piece containing over 100 drawings.

CURSE of the HAUNTED TOWER

A selection of work from my 25 hour drawing marathon and solo exhibition at the Map Room in October 2006.

the CASTLE AMBRAS series

Ongoing series of paintings and drawings inspired by the infamous "Monster Gallery" at Castle Ambras.

Engravings

Copperplate engraving was one of the earliest western printmaking media to arise and the tools and materials have changed little (if at all) since medieval times.