THE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR (first photo) “Alpine Titans” started as a watercolor sketch from one of my alpine hikes. The beauty of an...

Doubt and faith are familiar companions when I start a new woodblock. No matter how much thought and planning was put towards the initial...

All the parts for the Esbocos do Porto book were gathered together and time set aside to assemble the books.

Junkichi Mukai 1901-1995 Meiji Period    1868 – 1912 The 1860’s saw Japan in political upheaval with the eventual downfall of the...

Being a print fanatic, I am always on the lookout for interesting prints, be they woodblocks, intaglio or lithographs. Over the years, I...

One summer day, a Denver antique dealer called to say they had some prints I might like. The last thing I needed was more prints, but I...

To continue on from the last blog post that talked about inking a detail block without making a mess, I wanted to post my most recent...

A fellow artist proudly announced that he is creating original prints of his watercolors. “Really?” “Yeah, I manipulate the image in my...

A friend was asking about the challenge of creating a new block to print a background color to a reduction woodblock that is nearing...

Hiroshi Yoshida, an early 19th century Japanese woodblock artist, created various colorations of a simple scene of a sail boat using...

I was asked what inspired me to create the crane woodblock. The woodblock was complied from multiple sketches made over a few years of...

It is always a joy to watch an image evolve from nebulous color fields into a definable image as each color layer is printed over the...

Have started work on a new woodblock of a nocturne scene in the Rio Grande Gorge. I print light to dark using the reduction process of...

Being open to change can be a bit challenging. The first challenge is to recognize a change needs to happen. As I was printing the last...

I always feel like I am reaching a turning point when printing an edition as I start printing the foreground on a woodblock landscape....

Sara Frances approached me almost 2 years ago about a project she was starting. As we sat in my studio one sunny spring day, she...

Every year I create a small woodblock for the start of the snow season. "November Tapestry" is this year's contribution to the snowy...

I was pleased at first with the woodblock "Evening Enchantment" but after looking at it for a day, I realized it needed one more color...

I spent a few days of printing at the Ann Korologos gallery for the end of July. I was situated by the front windows, working at a large...

Over 10 years ago I started to move away from oil based inks and using the Japanese method of printing. One of the first steps in that...