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Linocut in progress: Tern-ing slowly 25 Aug 2013 | 09:37 pm
Ink is drying unusually slowly, so this piece seems to be crawling forward. That may or may not be a good thing. Too much time to think between steps can be deadly to enthusiasm. Common tern linocut,...
Linocut in progress: Step 7, a subtle tern 22 Aug 2013 | 01:30 am
Oh dear. The puntification is only going to take a tern for the worse, I'm afraid. I'm glad you all can handle it. I realized today that I've been approaching this particular linocut in a more "water...
Intermission 20 Aug 2013 | 12:58 am
The tern linocut needs a little more time to dry before I can print the next color, which is good because I have another project that needs some attention. (Read: Started it yesterday, must ship it on...
Linocut in progress: common tern Step 6 18 Aug 2013 | 05:35 am
Yeah, I'm ready to be done with this sky. I think the next step will be to try to work the shadow of the bird back around where I want it... then water and distant trees... bird details... Ooph. Ways ...
Linocut in progress: common tern 14 Aug 2013 | 01:11 am
Wow. Clearly I haven't printed in a while, since I seem to be hosting some new neck and shoulder aches. You what that means, don't you? Right. MORE PRINTING. Common Tern linocut: Step 4 So here we a...
Constancy and change 10 Aug 2013 | 06:24 am
Why, yes. It's been an unconscionable amount of time since we've seen lino and carving tools on this blog. Summer workshops and exhibitions always disrupt studio time, but this season has been filled...
Here... and gone.... and then back! 31 Jul 2013 | 07:41 am
I arrived home late last night– twenty hours, two planes, a shuttle, a truck, and a car after I left Maine. Not a case in which getting there was half the fun. And of course I'm blowing out again day ...
Fieldwork Friday: Alpine Meadow, Valley Floor, Island Bound 13 Jul 2013 | 05:47 am
I wish I could say it's been a week of highs and lows... and I guess it has, if you count some time spent at timberline on Monday as the high. The rest of the week, indeed all of July so far, has been...
Still here... sort of 2 Jul 2013 | 06:18 am
I see that my last post had to do with being somewhat overwhelmed. Clearly I haven't gotten past that sensation, since two weeks have somehow evaporated. Poof. A few items have been ticked off my lis...
Exhibition News: I am officially overwhelmed! 16 Jun 2013 | 07:39 am
"Shower with a Friend," reduction linocut, 15" x 15" If you are an artist, or if you hang around with artists, you are probably familiar with the phenomenon of The Juried Show. Artists submit "slides...
