Dear Center for Contemporary Printmaking moku-hanga workshop participants (Janis Carter, Carol Borelli, Aeleen Frisch, Charles Hallock, Andrea Krupp, Simone Ingram, Wimberley Burton, Mary Gerster, Su-T). Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!! What a great week we had, and I congratulate you all for having designed, carved, and successfully printed Japanese technique woodblock prints! WOW! YOU […]
Aspen Grove 77×42 inch woodcut plus pigment application video
You asked about how I mix and apply pigment… When printing very pale colors, I generally add pigment dispersion or dry pigment to rice paste or methyl cellulose, mix well, and then dab that onto the damp block and brush out. For more saturated colors, I mix a substantial amount of dry pigment into a […]
A brief ‘break’ to make a table
Several months ago, I promised my daughter, Allegra (Leggie, Legs, Lulu), I’d make a dining table for her apartment in Boulder… As she’s coming home for Thanksgiving, my wife has insisted that I postpone additional work on the big press to complete Leggie’s table… Mark Sfirri and I were roommates while we were teaching at […]
Dojo-ji Maiden woodcut
Dojoji Maiden, 2000, moku-hanga, about 5″ high. Traditional Japanese Wood Block Prints pulled by hand from seventeen small cherry wood blocks. About 160 prints were pulled in all. Dojo-ji Maiden: A long time ago, a handsome young monk took shelter for the night in the home of a lonely widow. He awoke with a start […]
1976 Lothar Running
1976 Lothar running (Steve’s dog) — ink outline of Steve’s dog, Lothar, running, drawn to repeat infinitely. (1.7mb 0:00:18 silent)
1976 Steve Jumping (inked in)
1976 Steve jumping (filled in) — about 400 ink-filled contours on tracing paper. (1.8mb 0:00:20 silent)
1976 Steve Jumping
1976 Steve jumping (outlines) — ink outlines accumulated on single sheet. (0.9mb 0:00:09 silent)
1975 Mother, Mother
1975 16mm Mother Mother (final but never completed) — gouache on paper cut-out animation of a recurring nightmare I had during childhood. About four months of long days and late nights. Only previous showing was a screening in my living room for director John Altman fall, 1975 — he said, “Keep up the good work! […]
1975 Paper Ducks
1975 paper ducks — one or two hundred duck contours cut out of construction paper — holes animated first, then cut-outs. (1.5mb 0:00:17 silent)
1975 Making ‘Mother, Mother’
1975 the making of Mother Mother — my 24 year old self painting and animating. (8.0mb 0:01:26 narrated)