Gift prints for Japan visit

Three small prints from a single block set. After printing, each was cut out and folded into a fancy tissue, then enclosed in a gift envelope.  When we visited Japan, I presented these as small gifts to everyone who was kind to us — the reactions were usually a bit hilarious — I’m not too [...]

Lily and Sarah (spring becomes summer)

“Lily & Sarah (Spring Becomes Summer)”, August 17, 2004, 9 x 8 inches, woodblock print from 32 cherry plywood blocks, dry pigments in rice flour paste on Iwano Ichibei hosho, 48 sheets printed — another failed attempt to realize ‘full color’ in a woodcut.

Danielle

“Danielle”, August 9, 2004, 22 x 8 inches, woodblock print from 16 cherry plywood blocks, dry pigment and charcoal in paste of rice starch on Iwano Ichibei hosho, 16 sheets printed.

Rod

“Rod”, August 5, 2004, 30 x 21 inches, woodblock print from 16 cherry plywood blocks, dry pigment and neri-zumi in paste of rice starch on Iwano Ichibei hosho, 12 sheets printed.

Jessica on dark drapery

“Jessica on dark drapery”, July 1, 2004, 10 x 15 inches, woodblock print from 16 cherry plywood blocks, dry pigment and neri-zumi in paste of rice starch on Iwano Ichibei hosho, 16 sheets printed.

Shannon and Danielle seated

“Shannon and Danielle seated”, June 30, 2004, 15 x 10 inches, woodblock print from 24 cherry plywood blocks, dry pigment and neri-zumi in paste of rice starch on Iwano Ichibei hosho, 24 sheets printed. I love this frank image of the two girls seated on the box in my studio!

Sarah (pink robe)

“Sarah (pink robe)”, June 29, 2004, 7 x 22 inches, woodblock print from 16 cherry plywood blocks, dry pigment and neri-zumi in paste of rice starch on Iwano Ichibei hosho, 24 sheets printed. Among my most ‘romantic’ images, this one of Sarah reclining in her pink terry-cloth robe knocks me out!  Another experiment in limiting [...]

Elizabeth and Rod

Rod, my friend of 20 years and his girlfriend of two weeks, Elizabeth, came down in early June and allowed me to photograph them them… A LOT of interesting images came from that afternoon, including this one which I loved for its quiet contrast between her light and somewhat inflated figure in motion and his [...]

Sarah Reclining

I think this image is pretty much a wooden sort of homage to Bonnard — another print of the same setup is much more like a Cezanne still-life, but this one harkens to Bonnard in my mind. It’s 22 shades of blue-gray are very close together, and I was primarily interested in contrasting the smooth [...]

Sarah

This is an early portrait of my primary model, Sarah, whose image appears again and again in these pages. This is a detail from an image of her full standing figure made about ten years ago. I have been looking forward to printing this for a long time, but have lacked the skills I felt [...]

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