Here are a couple blocks I did in the last few weeks. I'm double posting this time to catch up a little. Like I have said before, I am carving blocks faster than I can print them or post them.
These were the 3x 4 blocks. I like the small one for two reasons. They are easy to carry around (since I do a lot of carving while I am at work) and secondly they kind of force me to keep the designs simple. Yet I still feel the compulsion to put as much detail in as possible. It's a struggle...
When I was making books, I would spend a couple weeks making miniatures, small leatherbound books that measured about 3 x 4. After I would make, oh I don't know, a couple dozen, I would have to stop. My eyes would be buggy and my hands would be very tired. I would have to make larger books just to relax.
The same seems to be going for the blockprinting. In the last several days I've done a couple larger blocks just to relax my hand and my eyes. Well, ok, that's not the only reason. I also wanted to have more larger pieces.
So today is printing day...
By the way, The moon is colored in Photoshop. The Pears, which are available for purchase at my Artfire store, were handcolored with watercolor.
3 comments:
very interesting to know the way you work. Now I understand how you obtain the watercolor effect. beautiful, the moon and the pears.
Wonderful. Enjoy this productive season. There is something about the cooling weather of approaching fall that makes me feel productive, too. Perhaps it's some old "harvest" instinct.
I like both these prints very much, and the commentary about how you work. And, I really love how you work on your carvings at work - good job!
Wow! Super cool! I just started learning about lino cutting and love how you added watercolor...very inspiring! Thanks for sharing.
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