July 09, 2007
Cervidae Arboreous
New woodcut reduction from Nathalie Roland
I printed these for the Tree Show at Giant Robot SF which opens this Saturday July 14th.
Image is 12" x 17.5" varied edition of 14
carved on scrap wood from my friend's candy shop construction.
1 color
2 colors
and the final color
Posted by Nathalie Roland at 06:59 PM | Comments (3)
March 15, 2007
New print for Nude Exchange
My print for Exchange #29
Here are some pics of one of my latest prints. It's a three-step reduction print carved on 3/4" birch-ply and printed in traditional Japanese style. I have included pics of the block at each step. Click on any of the images to see an enlargement.
Step #1 - Background Yellow color
Step #2 - Light skin tone
Step #3 - Dark skin tone
Final Image
Posted by Julio at 02:40 AM | Comments (1)
December 20, 2006
Happy Christmas with my first print
Merry Christmas everybody.
I thought I'd let the world see my first very modest little print, "Catching Snowflakes". 6.5 x 5cms. (So I think the image you can see below is about 4 times bigger!). I've had to fit it in around a busy work schedule, but it's gone out as a Christmas card to select friends and family, and via this blog, to all at Baren.
Only 3 blocks, black, blue and red/light pink.
Considering it's my first attempt at anything like this before, I'm quite pleased, and I've learnt far more by doing than I have by just reading, especially when it came to printing. I just want to get stuck into my next one now.
Merry Christmas everybody.
Posted by Mark Mason at 06:44 AM | Comments (5)
March 23, 2006
Impression of Griebel in Schleswig Holstein, Northern Germany
Printed on Holland paper with Lawrence linseed oil inks cut on Cherry 25cmx12cm and based loosely on an original sketch at :
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/h.french1/sketchone.htm
It takes too long to update my website. This system is much better ; that's if members are clicking on from the main Barenforum!
Harry
Lincoln
UK
Posted by Harry French at 04:45 AM | Comments (0)
February 09, 2006
Website Update
Bareners,
I am conscious of flooding the Latest Prints blog with my work, so I’ve updated my website instead.
My prints are all on :
homepage.ntlworld.com/h.french1/NEWWORK.htm
Regards to you all,
Harry
Lincoln
England
UK
Posted by Harry French at 09:49 AM | Comments (1)
January 11, 2006
S.F.
this is my latest print. i redid the inner part of my steamroller print to a more manageable size (12 x 12) and also left in more of the water, which i think looks much nicer.
Posted by Brad Robinson at 01:27 PM | Comments (0)
January 04, 2006
Stone roof tracery : Gainsborough Old Hall : Lincolnshire : UK
230 cm x 200 cm : birch plywood : three colour reduction cut. Aqua Kolor inks on Holland paper
The seventh print in a series of Moku Hanga printed illustrations of this Medieval building (1460AD).
All the best for the New Year. Harry
Posted by Harry French at 03:27 PM | Comments (0)
December 15, 2005
year of the dog
(click on the image for a larger view)
so here is my print for the year of the dog exchange. they'll go in the mail tomorrow and will hopefully be in your homes soon! below is all 70 of them laid out drying!
best, brad
Posted by Brad Robinson at 05:07 PM | Comments (0)
November 22, 2005
The Oriel window : Gainsborough Old Hall : Lincolnshire : UK
30cm x 20cm : Birchwood plyblock : printed Moku Hanga technique.
Six variant, reduction prints on Gampi vellum paper with Akua inks.
Regards, Harry
Posted by Harry French at 10:39 AM | Comments (1)
November 05, 2005
Gainsborough Old Hall
26cmx14cm : Birchwood plyblock : printed Moku Hanga technique.
I was delivering Baren brochures to the Gainsborough Arts Centre and came out with an unexpected exhibition opportunity to produce work from the immediate environment. I set about sketching this old hall which was a place of worship for the Separatists before they moved to Amsterdam and later to America. I hope to call the exhibition “West meets East" : just eight woodblock studies of Gainsborough Old Hall cut in the western tradition and printed in the eastern manner..or something like that..
I did not intend to print them Moku Hanga because of my inexperience in the technique, however, as I have signed up for the #27 Moku Hanga exchange (Mythical beasts) next year these prints are a trial run. I am only showing about eight prints so not to bamboozle the audience and maybe include a display as to how the prints were done..or maybe I’ll just exhibit and leave out the educational bit which would make a refreshing change!
Harry
Lincoln UK
Posted by Harry French at 12:42 PM | Comments (1)
November 02, 2005
Letting Go - Second Color
Second color, alizarin crimson, applied to my reduction print. Almost finished carving for the third and last color.
Posted by Ellen Shipley at 12:33 AM | Comments (1)
October 27, 2005
Wedding Gift Woodcut Edition
Hello all,
Here is a woodcut I did as a wedding gift for the 2 folks pictured. I gave them an edition of 12 figuring that they could then give them to friends and family. So thats 12 of my prints out in the world and 0 in my drawer (except 2 APs, just in case) - usually it's the other way around! Size is about 9"x12".
Posted by Dan Allegrucci at 09:45 AM | Comments (1)
September 20, 2005
What I did this summer
Hi all,
This past summer I was able to attend two Japanese woodblock workshops.
One at a local community college taught by April Vollmer (and where I served as her unofficial TA) and I one at the Penland School of Crafts, a two-week workshop with Keiji Shinohara. In April's class
I complete one print (San Francisco de Asis)and in Keiji's class I completed 3 prints--as well as practiced bokashi. If I've done this correctly (this is my first blog posting), I'll have 4 images along with this entry.
Take care,
frank
San Francisco de Asis
Serengeti Plain
Summer Gingko
Nuestra Senora de los DoloresPosted by Frank Trueba at 12:46 PM | Comments (7)
September 16, 2005
New Web Site and Woodcuts
Hi everyone. Here are a couple of brand new woodcuts. These images are from an abandoned nuclear plant construction site in South Carolina. The reactor was about 3/4 built, then they just abandoned the project. That was more than 20 years ago and the site has remained untouched (except for lots of fresh shotgun shells and beer cans). It's a very eerie, surreal place.
I climbed to the top of this tall observation tower that overlooks the whole site. I was unable to get onto the little deck at the very top because a hawk had built a huge nest over the entry hole. 2 hawks were circling the tower the whole time I was on it. I guess they were making sure I wasn't there to evict them.
Technical: 4 colors each, 1/4 inch birch plywood, Graphic Chemical litho inks on Arches Cover through the ol' Dick Blick Econo-etch.
Also, I just totally redesigned my prinmaking web site: www.danielallegrucci.com so check it out. Thanks, Dan Allegrucci
Posted by Dan Allegrucci at 04:07 PM | Comments (2)
September 10, 2005
Two Hand Reel
Here's my newest print! 29 colors, lino block, on hosho student paper using graphic chemical water based inks. Kento registration.
Posted by Daniel Dew at 12:00 PM | Comments (3)
September 06, 2005
Castle Schuyler House -- Happy 33rd Anniversary
I carved this over the summer as an anniversary present for my husband. It's a creative redrawing of the Norman Keep at Castle Cardiff. Bill tweaked it from a friend's photo to make it look more like his business logo. Perfect for my purposes! The castle is Bill's, the bucalic scene is mine.
The trick has been to keep him from seeing it before the 9th. I'm fairly confident he won't look in here. ;->
Woodcut on Baltic birch, 9"x12". I utilized the direction of the grain for the cloud action, but it fought me all the rest of the block. I'm wondering if Belinda DelPesco's technique of staining the block then using polyurithane wouldn't have helped with all the chipping. I may try that for the next one.
Posted by Ellen Shipley at 12:47 AM | Comments (2)
September 05, 2005
The Bookkeeper
This is a watercolored etching. I used cool primaries to color it. I'm always mixing up my warm and cool blues, so I'm hoping this will help me keep them separate. Next is a dragon all in warm colors.
Posted by Ellen Shipley at 06:30 PM | Comments (1)
August 03, 2005
The latest from Trout Lily Studios
Though my printing schedule usualy starts in the fall (after trout season closes!) I was commissioned to produce a print centered on the energy and power of casting a fly. This print is to be for a poster for the Great Waters Fly Fishing Expo held in Minneapolis, Minnesota next spring.
I used a cherry plank for my block, Akua color ink, and bleached mullberry block paper that I get at the local art supply shop. I "believe" that I used 14 colors for this print - I'm math-challenged and it's easy for me to loose count!
Posted by John Koch at 09:19 AM | Comments (1)
July 26, 2005
The first of the Rodeo Bulls...
My latest obsession is Rodeo Bulls.
I think they are just amazing looking animals.
This particular bull reminds me of the Assyrian
bull from the Ishtar Gate.
Safety-Kut in pthalo blue on lavender unryu.
Annie F.
"Blueberry Wine"
Posted by Annie Fitt at 04:57 PM | Comments (1)
July 25, 2005
Flavia's Unicorn
I'm computer literate! Well, at least I'm trainable. ;-> Thanx to Juio I was able to upload this woodcut, another viscosity print. Here I played with a yellow-gold and a dark green, with red for the handprint. Another in my Paleo-Mythos Series of mythical cave beasts.
Ellen Shipley, CA
Posted by Ellen Shipley at 07:17 PM | Comments (1)
July 19, 2005
Trial proof : Medieval Rooftop : Gainsborough : Lincolnshire : UK
A medieval kitchen roof with a cantilevered sky light chimney : Gainsborough Old Hall, Lincolnshire.
Birch plywood 20cm x 22cm on Kanoko paper using Lawrence linseed oil.
This is the fourth study in a series of the Gainsborough Old Hall in Lincolnshire. I started the series after distributing the Baren leaflets to the Arts Centre and as I left the Arts officer proposed that I hold an exhibition of woodprints. Flabbergasted, I asked what sort of subject matter the patrons were interested in. He implied that they seldom had local studies, so off I went to review this magnificent hall : a meeting place of the Pilgrim Fathers before they left to the New World and where John Wesley preached a sermon to ‘a rude, wild multitude’.
Harry.
Lincoln : UK
Posted by Harry French at 10:21 AM | Comments (2)
July 11, 2005
New print from Morris & Wagner!
Hi all! Robin Morris here- Carol Wagner and I collaborated on a print of her neighbor's lovely cat. Carol designed and drew, I carved, we both printed. Enjoy!
Posted by Carol Wagner at 02:48 AM | Comments (1)
July 01, 2005
GEORG 2
This item should have with it a scan of a print 200mm x 230mm on cardridge paper of Georg, a cockerel, a legend at the Neustadt market in Holstein, Germany (click to see larger version).
Regards to all Harry, Lincoln,UK
More info. on http://homepage.ntlworld.com/h.french1/GEORGPRINT.htm
Posted by Harry French at 01:40 PM | Comments (1)
June 27, 2005
Woodblock print
Here's the 22nd. state of a woodcut I've been working on off and on for the last year or so. It's on 1/4 inch birch plywood, 13 by 22 inches, oil-based ink printed on an etching press. The plywood developed waves after cutting and is no longer flat so it's difficult to get a consistently inked print; I'll know to use a thicker wood next time! This is the largest woodblock I've done. http://www270.pair.com/madis/a/clouds1.jpg http://www270.pair.com/madis/a/clouds2.jpg Not sure if I'm through with this print or not, probably title it "Walking In the Clouds".
Posted by Darrell Madis at 10:12 PM | Comments (1)
June 20, 2005
Work in progress.......
For a while now I been wanting to do an image of Mt.Fuji. With so many prints of the famous mountain already in existence I decided to do one that emphasizes heavy cloud coverage during sunset....Click on the images for an enlargement.
The print is 15"W X 6"H. and printed on Iwano-san hosho. The sky block is pine and has quite a bit of woodgrain that shows on the print. The solid color block for the mountain is cherry ply. I could not get the whole image on my scanner so there is about 2-3" on the right side missing.
There are a two more color impressions still to do and one large bokashi on the moutain range itself. More pics to follow.
Posted by Julio at 04:57 AM | Comments (0)
June 16, 2005
Example of posting a print image (b) ...
You may have your image appear in a thumbnail form, as seen here, with a larger version that popups up when the small one is clicked ...
Posted by Dave Bull at 06:27 PM | Comments (0)
Example of posting a print image (a) ...
As long as you keep the horizontal dimension below 500 pixels, you can just put your image right into the body of your entry, as in this example.
Posted by Dave Bull at 06:26 PM | Comments (3)