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Not dormant, just 7 months deep into carving this block and the end is officially in sight as I start clearing the wood.
Working on the reflective sheen on the fur for the seal. One of seven commissioned book plates.
Carving, wip, a little preview of the next block
Wip.
Someone asked me the other day if I transfer images to the blocks I want to carve and the answer is no. Every print is essentially 3 separate art pieces, all sketched and done directly on the block. The pencil layout, which establishes the composition, the ink layout which sets up the loose guidelines I follow, and then finally, the carving itself, which is a completely different part of my brain to the last two stages.
That is my tool box.
on the sides it has two little slips of paper one says "you are a good person" the other says "you are a fucking tool" the bottom has one of my prints that says "FUCK" printed on brown paper.
inside is: a strop, my speedball carving tool, a couple of X-acto knives, what's left of the fancy carving set I bought when I realized I was going to be doing this for my BFA (note to the world: never loan out your tools, even if you think not loaning out your tools makes you look like an asshole, nobody notices your name carved in the handles and they will not give them back) other things: my engraving twist which is unsurprisingly nice for working up scratch board, my scratch board tool, a lump of eraser, some utility knife blades, some mechanical pencils, some mechanical pencil lead, an eraser and an Altoids Small's tin where I keep my tool-bits. (I like to think of it as the Altoid's sharps tin) the box interior is also decorated with a couple of these silly librarian-themed temporary tattoos.
I felt like showing some progress pictures today of something simple. I'm trying to get back into the swing of making things and what better opportunity for that than a three day weekend?
I am making several more of these simple herbaceous prints to be ready for my show at Dandelion Botanicals in April. it always pays to have a range of prices available, somebody who won't drop $200 on a piece might still want something for $20.
love circa 2002
:p sorry i’m loopy
Planning for a lino cutting! I might do some practice mushroom stamps soon :) I’m so excited for print making✨
Another lino carving concept 😊 I like this one now too… one more maybe?
Linoleum print all inked up and pretty✨
I might thicken the lines a bit more and see if I can get some more clean prints, but I love how this came out 🥰
Fun in the flowers 😊🌼
Moths in the dark ✨ .
The design for the larger linocut I’ll be working on✨ my hands are going to be so tired 😬 I'm also going to try mixing inks to make the blue areas a pretty green! We will see how it goes 😌
Classes starting today and the first project is making stencils for screen printing ✨ Im very excited about this project ☺️ . .
