Produced for a Hand Print Press print exchange (and summarily rejected SO unfairly by the short-lived curatorial committee) the text reads: Use a razor knife and straight edge to cut out the colored squares along the black lines. Paste 143 yellow squares over the 143 ‘M’s, 160 magenta squares over 160 ‘I’s, 186 red squares […]
Hansel and Gretel
“Hansel & Gretel”, 1996, 15 x 11 inches, color woodcut – two examples, the second a later state with added imagery and design.
The Fisherman and his Wife
This was my first ‘traditional’ multi-block Japanese woodblock print. It was made during a two week workshop taught by Hiroki Morinoue at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado. That was a life-changing experience — VERY stimulating — and launched me into a whole new world of moku-hanga (traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking)! WOW! Total immersion […]
Dog Dream reduction woodcut
My original drawing was done very quickly in pencil, then color was indicated using colored pencil. All colored areas in the prints were printed from a single block printed and reduced by carving through many printings. First the areas to remain white were removed by carving the block. then the block was printed in pale […]
37 dogs
64 embedded self-portraits
Here was an experiment to see if I could juggle the big image made of smaller images made of smaller images. The small self-portraits are made of 25 pieces, each of which can carry any of 5 values of lightness or darkness. This was the practice piece for the big self portrait you’re about to see…
1996 woodcuts
Early in 1996, for reasons I still don’t understand, really, I became fascinated by Japanese woodblock printmaking technique. In January, I registered for a two week long workshop to be taught by Hiroki Morinoue at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado — but I was wait-listed and didn’t know until shortly before the workshop […]
Traffic (tiled relief print)
These prints were produced using a set of identical plexi-glass cubes which I machined out of 1/2″ plexi bar stock. I routed a 1/8″ groove in one side, a 1/4″ groove in another side, and a 3/8″ groove in a third side of each long bar. Then I sliced the bars into 1/2″ long cubes using a […]
6,401 self portraits
The image was lifted from a 1988 photo-ID. The title is derived from the number of self-portrait images used to make the image of me, plus 1 for the complete image itself. Since the image lives in a space 40 cells high by 40 cells wide, it’s 40 x 40 = 1600 cells in the image. Each of […]