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Subject: Arts of Japan series : print #2 - printing begins
Posted by: Dave Bull
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Keeping the blog up-to-the-minute hasn't been possible recently, but here's a catchup! I'm finally busy with the printing work on the second print in the Arts series - the image of the Kamakura Daibutsu. It starts - as all of them do - with the series outline and title, quickly followed by the key outlines of the print itself (the two impressions are here shown together, because I forgot to scan them separately):  |
This item is taken from the blog Woodblock RoundTable.
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Subject: Keepers of the Flame
Posted by: Sharri
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Oh yeah, you have to remember to push the publish button when you've finished the post! These older brains are something else - one would think I had never blogged before. Apparently, the procedure was in the short term memory and we can see how good that is... This image, "Keepers of the Flame" is part of the mythology series from Ancient Celtic Mythology. In doing my research I found many references to the Pashcal Candle of Christianity, and how the symbol was carried on from pagan religions. In the time of the Druids and before, when religions were matriarchal, the interpretation of the candle's light was an honored symbol of Juno, or the local goddess of the moon, stars and sun. It was believed that she gave newborns their gift of sight. Personally, I think the candles were all scented and, hygiene being what it was back then, the more candles you could keep burning the better the smell. My "Keepers of the Flame" represent all those feminine mystics from long ago who, like Motel 6, kept the candle in the window burning. 
Keepers of the Flame
7.5 x 8.5
Solarplate? intaglio
Akua intaglio ink, a la poupe
chine coll
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This item is taken from the blog Rag & Bone.
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Subject: Maple, withering
Posted by: Andrew Stone
 Maple Branch, (withering). 16"x 15" moku hanga polychrome woodblock print Hosokawa Japanese Washi E.V. 10; 3 AP; a still-uncounted number of variants and rejects/misprints. It was November when I cut off a small branch of the Japanese Maple growing in my mother-in-law's garden. I brought it inside and hung it up and in the span of a few hours the beautiful, Fall, red-carmine-vermillion leaves had twisted and curled as the water fled from their cells and the dry air hastened what Fall would have inevitably wrought later. The back-lit seeds glowed with the late afternoon sun and the the two leaf surfaces were different colors; the back of the leaves twisted forward to show me their bellies carmine-red, puckered and veined. The front sides glowed from the sun behind,more orange, with only the veins showing dark. The chlorophyll, the green life-blood of all growing plants was too precious to let fall to the ground and had been drawn back into the stems and branches to await the lengthening days of Spring and provide the engine and fuel for next year's growth. I had been drawing from life only earlier that day and this was another model, only older and more fragile. The dangling seeds were now earrings and jewels and the five limbs of each leaf wrapped around a body that was no longer alive. I sketched this hanging branch with its Baroque leaves with a rapid hand, in pencil, before the light faded and before the mood changed. As it dried I knew that even a careless breath would shake loose the leaves or separate the seeds from whatever invisible connection still held them to stem.  It took a long time to make this print. Thanks to all who have looked, commented and offered advice and encouragement. I'm glad Spring is here already and Summer just ahead. [Long item has been trimmed at this point. The full blog entry can be viewed here] |
This item is taken from the blog Lacrime di Rospo.
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