What a wonderful surprise when John O’Brien called from Dolphin Frames to let me know that the framing of five of my new (large) works were done — Justin and Greg came by a short while later to deliver the things and here they are all wrapped up in their milky protective plastic wrapping and […]
“Sarah” pen and ink drawing 7 x 3.75 feet Complete
The first two papers I tried for this life-size figure drawing weren’t strong enough and they were torn to shreds relatively early in the process. I finally had success (after almost a month of experimenting) with Arches 300 lb. hot press watercolor paper — it is VERY strong and held up beautifully! The squiggly lines […]
Max
Just thought I’d let you know that I have a new carving “assistant”! I tell her exactly what to do and how to do it, and she goes to it! She’s GREAT! Fast, too! Yesterday she carved 24 — yes, you heard me right — TWENTY-FOUR — pretty complex chuban blocks for me and they […]
Lifesavers for the Titanic woodcut
“Life Savers for the Titanic”, 1998, 17 x 12 inches, tiled woodcut, sumi ink on heavy drawing paper
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 […]