Bill Ritchie's Art in the
Jack Stewart Gallery
Cyanotype 1981 Poster
Six-color offset lithograph. Tones of blue, overprinted with transparent gloss yellow process PMS inks on white 165 lb Warren Patina pH Neutral paper. 40 X 24 3/4
in.
Though this poster was printed by offset litho, we made the plates from hand drawn masters. To create the blended colors
I worked with the plate maker and printer plus I mixed the inks. Three sources make the image: A map of the Colorado River, a leaf-like diagram
I used for computer animation and the famous woodblock print by Hokusai titled
The Great Wave . . . I was influenced by cartography, computer technology and Japanese culture and also names of
my family and studio mates.
I met Jack online years ago and we carried on a chat then; one day in 2002
he walked into the Capitol Hill location where I was doing The Professor's
Cabinet - a temporary gallery and workspace in a kind of international mall of
arts and crafts. Jack took the poster home that day.