Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Monday, November 23, 2009

Where Sky Meets Earth II

11 color woodcut print, this took forever to print waiting for the ink to dry between runs

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Residual Memories

This is series of prints are about objects and the memories I associate with them. I am working primarily with zinc plates, starting with a very dark aquatint scraping and burnishing highlights and halftones. Finally I will add line work such as trees with traditional etching. I will post all states here and document the process.

Residual Memory: Flying Dream
State 1

State 2

State 3

State 4
State 5

State 6 nearly done with the scraping, the plate in grounded and I will draw in the tree and etch it.

Residual Memory: Grandpa's Chair
State 1

State 2

State 3

State 4

Residual Memory: Mark of the Toolmaker

State 1

State 2

Stage 3 done!

Residual Memory: Endless Autumn
Stage 1
Residual Memory: Labor of Love

Sunday, November 8, 2009

autumn

Well its been a very busy fall and my work has proceeded very slowly mainly due to waiting for ink to dry. During October I went down to Iowa State with the Augie printmaking class and observed some very nice collaborative printmaking efforts involving a steamroller. Students worked as a team and carved out a 4 by 8 sheet of plywood, inked it with paint rollers, and used a steamroller as a press. I've also been busy teaching and being a dad. Should be a bunch more artwork by December.
Unknowing
Watercolor
a quiet composition for me kinda like it

Ghost Lights
Water Color
Fire Flies
Watercolor

Fall
4 color reductive woodcut
this was my first time using a rainbow roll, I got the idea looking at Hokusai

Corona Borealis III
9 Color reductive woodcut
this one got the best of me I set up too many rules, I think do do this right it would have to be a multiple board relief, one board for the color and the other for the outlines and shadows.

Blood Makes the Grass Grow II
another in the series of birth death birth series
3 color reductive woodcut
I've been looking a lot at Durer lately