Angie Hoffmeister- drypoint prints

Angie Hoffmeister

At the moment in class we are about to start making dry point prints, but need to do some research beforehand for inspiration, tips and to get a basic idea of what other artists have done. I came across Angie Hoffmeister, an artist and freelance illustrator from Düsseldorf in Germany, she creates art using a wide range of materials such as watercolours, pencils, markers, graphite, acrylics, oil paints etc... but she specialises in dry-point prints. She varies on the type of images she creates from nature to humans to household objects, but I found some dry-points of people and their faces that I can link to our current project "self portraits". Here are some examples of her dry-point prints........                                        
             

I really like this print, it's like she's captured a moving picture in 2d like the car is still moving and her head is still bopping about, her face is miserable like her eyes and I love the detail in the hair- it's not too much and it's lifelike. As though I'm looking at that person. The doubling the image effect is amazing in my opinion.                                                                                                                                

I don't really like this image- it messes with my eyes! But I appreciate the work that's gone into it, the fine detail around the eyes is really good and the multiple eyes are confusing but at the same time your eyes get drawn to them- It's a really good idea and clearly really effective. The emotionless face and the dark dingy background has a cold, moody miserable atmosphere which must have been hard to create.




I feel as though the themes that are running through her images are moments captured in real life and possibly misery because in almost every single image of a face has a serious, sad or just below neutral expression and the backgrounds are always grey and cold with no or very little detail.  Also, these images, in my opinion, represent real life moments which I really admire.