Author: jackbaumgartner

New Life

A diversion from the usual fare: one of our Nubian does, Galaxy with her new kids, and a red hen looking for a good spot to lay an egg.

#2 (no names yet)

English Mount in Red Cedar

English mount in eastern red cedar with black walnut.

Installed with a red cedar shelf.

Surrounded by the Deep

…into the very heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me…

…the waters closed in over me; the deep surrounded me…

…I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever…

from the second chapter of Jonah

New Revised Standard Version

Oxford University Press

New Vessels

Dead-fall Black Walnut

Locust

Carved Black Walnut

Maple

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New Vessels in Black Walnut, Locust, and Maple. Some of these bowls are for sale on the Work for Sale page.

Terror of Jonah

Freeze and Thaw: Failure and Success

2012, Drypoint of Moses in the Rock, 4 1/2″ x 6″. Unlike an engraving which captures the ink in incised lines, the drypoint image is made by scratching the copper with a stylus, which raises a bur, trapping the ink on the surface of the plate. This produces a “softer” or “fuzzier” line than the crisp and precise engraved line. This also makes deeper tones possible, which I wanted for this image. I am not sure that I have not failed in my attempt. Yet I am not disappointed. Failure is the plough.

Fire and Gravel. 2012, Engraving of Waking Man drawing a comet, 3″ x 4 1/2″. The difference in line quality is readily observed in this engraved image.

A slightly earlier state of the Moses drypoint.

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Slideshow of images from the printing process.

Adze Ash, Carry Cottonwood

Building Layers

Building layers onto the upper half panel of Walking Man and the Ancient Ocean. Here, the clouds, sky, middle and far landscapes, and the cliff have all been recipients of a second layer on top of the underpainting. Below are two details, and the panel in two previous states.