I cut this block in 2015 during my mother's battle against breast cancer. She passed on a week after I finished cutting and at the time I couldn't bring myself to proof the plate. In fact I wasn't creative at all for a time. Now with the Corona virus and…
Hello from Thirroul on the east coast of Australia. I work from the Barracks Art Studios Thirroul which is very near to my house. It is an enclosed space that does not allow any other people access except for we 5 artists and 1 artist in residence. Mostly I am…
It is Red Bud time, a May Day moment here in Maryland, so there are bursts of fuchsia light along the sunny sides of woods. But other delicate and tender things keep coming out and filling in and soon their very own leaves will push the blossoms off. This print…
Plexiglass drypoint hand printed by spoon. From DVC Print Studio. This was my demo for DVC Etching classes today via zoom. Since Shelter-in-place order, students are not allowed to come to studio. One of assignments I gave was plexiglass drypoint with Akua ink handprinted by spoon, so students are all…
"heartseed" linocut by Simone Adler my name is Simone Adler and I live in Seattle. I'm new to printmaking, and excited about it! this is my first linocut. I painted the colors with watercolor first, tracing a template to line it up, then printed with black ink using a wooden…
Rubber block print. Just a little one, and I'll touch it up a bit more, but not today. I just wanted to join the printing even if just in a small way today!
Happy to be printing today! Two monoprints, Caligo Etching Inks
This is part of a series of prints planned for an artist book. Like many, I don't have a press due to closures and so I have had to find new ways to work. I have had some help from mentor, Toru Sugita, to pivot to drypoint on plexi or…
Pelicans in flight, Relief monoprint; 2020; Akua intaglio inks on Rives BFK; 14"x20" I'm excited to post my first entry to this wonderful event. Kudos to everyone who has been printmaking today -- I'm humbled to participate. My entry is a relief monoprint. First, I ran a few tests to…