All Original Works of Art by Siciliana Delgado, Copyright 2024.
Siciliana's monotype series are abstract hand-printed works on paper. An intuitive layered process that begins with lead pencil, and scumbled graphite powder drawings onto BFK Rives printmaking paper, or Arches 300 lb watercolor paper. Sometimes painting blots of pigment as well. She then immerses the paper in water, and soaks up the excess water with a towel—right before placing the paper of the press bed plate.
The artist rapidly and skillfully paints on a plexiglass plate. Oil-based ink is brushed on, and/or rolled on-top of the plate. Sometimes she scratches out the pigment from the plate, and/or adds mica, pigment powder, or draws with oil stick. The paper and plate is placed on an etching press that grounds 1000lb pressure into the fibers of the paper.
This layered process creates interesting designs, and forms depth in the final image. Siciliana's printmaking style is in tune with American abstract virtuosos:
​Richard Diebenkorn, Hans Hoffman and Helen Frankenthaler.
Whether representational or abstract, all of Siciliana Delgado's art begins spontaneously, yet evolves into decisive picture making.