prints

White Oak Relief Press

Zechariah (the Prophet) and Walking Man (detail)

Cutting linoleum for a relief print of the prophet Zechariah holding a banner saying “Grace to it”

Some new work on the objects in the foreground of Walking Man and the Ancient Ocean.

Goshen the Ewe Lamb, Lino-Cut and Bezalel’s Workshop.

Goshen, Ewe Lamb, color reduction lino-cut, 4.5″ x 6″

Bezalel’s Workshop, sumi ink drawing (unfinished) 9″ x 12″

Yaakov, I hope you approve so far 😉

Ewe Lamb; Color Reduction Lino-Cut

A few images from the inking and printing the first step and color in a small lino-cut edition of one of my ewe lambs.

In the color reduction process, multi-colored prints are achieved by a succession of printings, when more of the design is carved out at each round of printing, working from light to dark.

This first printing resulted in blue and white. The next printing will be a green followed by a black or dark brown. In these images, everything which is white has been craved away already, and that which is to remain blue must be carved away before the green printing.

Brouwerij West Crowns

Brian Mercer of Brouwerij West did a nice post on the crowns I designed for them. Brian was a pleasure to work with. He even sent me some beer. You can see his post here, and below are a few more pictures of the process. We ended up with black and white but in the trial process I used four different registered blocks to achieve various color arrangements.

In Color: Go On, Job, Bread & Water

Colored proof of the Job lino-cut, using water based inks.

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.