Category: #printmaking

Finally back to printmaking. The past few months have been full of traveling and sewing. Both of those things have been good to do. Camped and hiked at Big Bend Natl. Park. That is a pretty special place. I hadn’t been there for 33 years. I found a watercolor of the Chisos Basin among old…

This, my first real multi-block, multicolor print, has given me a chance to play with colors more than the reduction prints have done. It’s amazing to have carved blocks that can be used to print more than one edition of an image. I’ve printed three editions of six prints each. I’m going to put them…

I carved all four blocks in just two days and I’ve printed the four blocks in three days. Having a press has made it possible to print thin layers of ink that dry quickly. The prints I’ve done using a baren have taken much longer to dry between layers. There’s a yellow block, a red-violet…

It’s only 2 1/2 x 3 inches. I’m playing with making a multiple-block, color print. So I’ve made a registration board for this little print. And I’ve cut a bunch of pieces of linoleum for the color blocks. Next I need to sand the blank linoleum pieces and offset the image onto them. The stuff…