Self Portrait

Another mostly failed attempt to realize a full-color woodcut. The source was a water-color self portrait I painted a few years ago. The reduction print was carved from three blocks in various reductions. A ‘yellow’ block was carved and printed three times, a ‘blue’ block was carved and printed four times, and a ‘red’ block [...]

Pushing Up Daisies

Lovers in a field of daisies are interrupted by the passage of a jet as it flies into the picture’s border. The title, “Pushing up Daisies”, was suggested by a friend, Jerry Vegder.  Jerry called the morning of Sept 11 with awful news about a plane crashing into the World Trade Center.  While we talked, [...]