Printing the woodblock "Alpine Titans"
THE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR (first photo) “Alpine Titans” started as a watercolor sketch from one of my alpine hikes. The beauty of an...
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Apr 212 min
First Colors on "Freezing Over"
Doubt and faith are familiar companions when I start a new woodblock. No matter how much thought and planning was put towards the initial...
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Apr 203 min
Esbocos do Porto Book Assembly
All the parts for the Esbocos do Porto book were gathered together and time set aside to assemble the books.
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Feb 112 min
Shin Hanga and Sosaku Hanga Woodblocks
Junkichi Mukai 1901-1995 Meiji Period 1868 – 1912 The 1860’s saw Japan in political upheaval with the eventual downfall of the...
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Jan 294 min
What's good or not in antique prints.
Being a print fanatic, I am always on the lookout for interesting prints, be they woodblocks, intaglio or lithographs. Over the years, I...
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Jan 124 min
Japanese Ukiyo-e prints
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...
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Dec 27, 20234 min
Printing Fine Line Details and Color Accents.
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...
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Dec 21, 20236 min
Original Print or Giclee?
A fellow artist proudly announced that he is creating original prints of his watercolors. “Really?” “Yeah, I manipulate the image in my...
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Dec 10, 20235 min
A New Block For An Existing Image
A friend was asking about the challenge of creating a new block to print a background color to a reduction woodblock that is nearing...
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Nov 10, 20232 min
A Fun Block For The Broadmoor Gallery
Hiroshi Yoshida, an early 19th century Japanese woodblock artist, created various colorations of a simple scene of a sail boat using...
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Aug 10, 20232 min
Inspiration for the March Dance
I was asked what inspired me to create the crane woodblock. The woodblock was complied from multiple sketches made over a few years of...
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Aug 1, 20233 min
The Final Carve
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...
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Apr 23, 20232 min
Layer Upon Layer
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...
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