Printmaking
Etchings, Silkscreens, and Lithographs

Video presentation
Tony Ortega printing at Art Gym, Denver, CO 
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Printmaking 

As an expressionistic printmaker I compose with traditional drawing techniques, digital technology and merge the resulting designs into traditional printing making processes.  I create prints in a variety of techniques that includes hand colored etchings, lithography and silkscreen. In my creative process I use distortion and exaggeration for emotional effect. I apply vivid and dynamic color, overlapping transparent color over opaque color.  I combine flat space with cubical space. My work interweaves, juxtaposes and superimposes images from American and Mexican popular cultures that include icons, symbols, art history and the contemporary world to foster opportunities for the bending of meaning. 

Slide show of hand colored etchings, silkscreens and lithographs:

Printing my large woodblock "Bonampac Cholo" 36' x 29" with Big Ink at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities on April 7, 2024

The artist retains copyright to the images displayed on this Web site. They may be used for non-commercial purposes if credit is given to the artist. For commercial purposes, please contact Tony Ortega for permission to reproduce, publicly display, copy, distribute or otherwise use such images.