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Monday, April 22, 2019

Damp Details

 This Traffic signal was the original seed of this print, a childhood memory of my neighborhood. Obviously, it was not the focus, but I love that the red and green held through all of the printing.

Whether it's clear or not that there is a church among the hazy buildings in back doesn't matter -- the silhouettes are there for depth (this place exists only in my mind and, now,bon paper). However, a fun note is that the rosette window is a spontaneous tribute to Notre Dame Cathedral, which burned during the making of the print.

The block is destroyed during the making of a reduction woodcut. Trying to explain the process to non-printmakers is a challenge. This should drive the point home.









Saturday, April 20, 2019

Rainy Day

9x7 reduction woodcut, 10 colors.

Thursday, April 18, 2019

Day Brightener

The mantra in the studio is "trust the process." Reduction woodcut is much different than other forms of block printing. I work from a cartoon, which is a road map for the print. I transfer the image to the block using carbon paper, though the block absorbs pigment, making the tracings almost invisible. The biggest challenge is color. Colors react to colors around them, but because I won't know how the colors will act until the print is done, I need to trust the palette I selected at the outset.

 Here you can see how the colors seem different. Another interesting thing is that the top color, a very light pink/beige, looked completely different when printed alone, more of a putty gray. But with the red under it, it casts a bit Pinker, which is why I printed in this order. I printed the brown over the green for the same reason -- printing red on green would have made the red too dark.

Tuesday, April 16, 2019