I promised my wife Linda that I’d complete a king-size bed for Andy’s room before Andy and Lauren arrived home for Christmas. This was an interesting project. The idea was to make a mortise and tenon bed frame to support a plywood platform and memory-foam mattress – with fabulous stacked spherical posts. The spheres would […]
A Chandelier for Cecily and Mike
December 23, 2011 — just barely in time for Christmas — I completed this cool chandelier for my daughter and son-in-law’s dining room table.
Burning Leaf Smell woodcut
Printed in December, 1997, this small edition of tiled woodcuts was produced for Christmas gifts that year. The muddy colors and swirly patterns remind me of the smell of leaves burning in our gutter each fall, a practice now long abandoned (and illegal). These were printed from a set of one-inch birch plywood tiles with […]
7 doggies
This represents my first “color” lithograph. The original drawing was transferred to four aluminum litho plates and each plate was developed by drawing with litho crayon. Then the plates were processed, inked in cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (one color per plate) and printed. Quick and easy, the prints were Christmas gifts to family and […]