Good lord, it's hot in my studio! I'm working on "Sara", a 17 block woodcut on ten sheets of 42 x 77 inch Iwano Ichibei hosho paper. Sweaty work and EXHAUSTING!!! I'm managing to print about 3 or 4 blocks per day and that's really all I am able to manage! But I'm getting better and better at using the large press I built about seven or eight months ago, even though this is only the third edition I've pulled on it. Some photos after I completed printing of the 14th block this afternoon, and you can click here to see a Flash movie (about 6 minutes / 9 mb) showing start-to-finish printing of one sheet around block four...
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Sorry about the ugly shadows at the edges of the paper -- the paper's really not at all brown -- also, while damp like this the thin sheets are somewhat transparent, so you can see (left edge) part of the print underneath this one through the top sheet...
-- Mike
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"Jon" will be my final pen and ink drawing for a while, as I have now begun work on a third large-scale woodblock print of "Sara" reclining in bed -- a bit larger than life-size from 17 blocks... More on that later -- here's the "Jon" drawing, 76 x 45 inches:
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"Jon", 76 x 45 inches, pen & ink drawing, completed July 10, 2006
Permanent Collection, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art
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-- Mike
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The completed Lily drawing outlined in a previous post...
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-- Mike
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