Plastic Factory Woodblock

May 24, 2006
Woodblock
5"x7"

I found this nice old drawer insert from an old desk in a Goddard College trash pile. I think it is cherry wood and the board was big enough to make another 5"x7" panel so I will probably use the same wood for the color block this time.

Rorschach Installation

May 22, 2006

Pencil on Paper

9.5"x7"

This little sketch outlines my basic idea for an installation using all four 12"x12" woodblocks and at least two sets of prints of all four plates. The blocks will be mounted together and set on a section of log like a low table. The prints will be push-pinned to the wall in a vertical column directly above the blocks. The other option is to take three prints and attach them together creating a long hanging scroll. This would be a bit more work but might be more aesthetically pleasing in the end.

Ray Plastic Factory

May 18, 2006

Copier collage, photoshop, white-out, and ball-point pen.

5"x7"

This is a cartoon for my next chiaroscuro wood block print. The original monotype for "Ray Plastic Factory" had a different sky that I did not feel worked as well as it could. I took this sky from the recent print "Mt. Monadnock" and stuck it on my new drawing with the aid of photoshop and multiple copies. There will still be some fine adjustment to the drawing by the time it actually gets to the carving process but this is pretty much good to go!

Moonrise

May 6, 2006
Solarplate Etching
4.25"x4.75"

The solarplate etching worked so very well with this image that it leaves me with a desire to make more of these plates.

All three solarplates were printed in small proof editions of six. I will probably not print them again until I have a suite of at least ten images and then I may create a small edition of each for a book project early next year.

Snow Squall

May 6, 2006

Solarplate Etching

4"x5"

I am very pleased with this image and really learned how to wipe the plate for the best possible print. Somehow, the effect of being in a snow storm came through in my drawing when transferred to the solarplate.

Plainfield Winter

May 4, 2006

Solarplate Etching

4.75"x6"

This is the first of three soloarplates that I made and I think I have the technique down. It helped that the sun is as strong as it gets right now and I had a string of two really nice sunny days.

The only problem I seem to be having is a raised edge along the bottom of the plate from the cutter that is picking up ink.

Palm Sunday

May 3, 2006

Monotype

5"x7"

There is something about this little print that I really like. I think this one may get used for a chiaroscuro print towards the end of the semester.

Mt. Monadnock

May 3, 2006

Monotype

5"x7"

I have abandoned using the small aluminum step-flashing in favor of a copper plate. The surface is so much nicer to work with and the thicker plate is easier to run through a press.

I am unsure what to think about this print as there are a few things going on that do not work very well. The mountain seems puffy and the pattern in the bushes in the foreground is too much the same.

East Hardwick

May 2, 2006

Monotype

10"x8"

This was my first effort at Vermont Week at the Johnson Studio Center. I spent the week in the residency printshop and made some decent work. This print was taken from an older drawing done near my home in East Hardwick.