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Subject: Paleo Dragon-fly Woodcut
Posted by: Ellen Shipley

Working on the composition for my paleo dragon-fly woodcut for the a mini-print exchange.


Cobbled this together on Paint Shop Pro and PageMaker.  The lizard is from an etching:


I'm working on changing the wings 'cuz the print will be only 2.5"x3.5" and I want to play and not just copy the dern thing (it's an etching I did in printlab a few years ago).  I like how the image overflows the space.

Sure makes the image dinky tho.  I may rethink that.  Might call for a simpler design.

This item is taken from the blog Pressing-Issues.
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Subject: Mourning Images--Revised
Posted by: Robert Simola

I have loved the carved, cherry-wood block, but the prints just didn't seem to work I cleaned up the original block and added three more colors carved from linoleum blocks.  I like the resultant print much better than the original. I think I am either doing a better job of carving, I am using better tools, or both. 

Mourning Images

While silent peacocks simply fade away
into the stubble of the barley field,
it's just a common, early autumn day

with early morning fog. A Stellar jay
is raucous, momentarily revealed,
while silent peacocks simply fade away.

A squirrel in a California bay
chatters at me, then it too is concealed.
It's just a common, early autumn day

and soon the fog will lift. I hear the neigh
of yearlings, (Memories: the past congealed)
while silent peacocks simply fade away.

(The arboretum, brilliant sunlight, May.)
That silent gaping wound has long since healed.
It's just a common, early autumn day.

She would not tell me why she would not stay,
but that's resolved, . . .
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Subject: Come test your brain at the Fourth Street Festival this weekend
Posted by: Elizabeth Busey

Sometimes I just have to wrestle with a print.  Each layer, each carving, we glare at each other, the print and I.  This month I have done battle with my love of aerial perspectives in a print titled March of the Cumulus.


Elizabeth Busey, March of the Cumulus, Linoleum Reduction Print, 2011.
I was inspired to create this print on an airplane trip in March.  Over some parched southwestern land, I noticed that the ponds I was perceiving were really cloud shadows.  When I showed my husband my pencil sketches, he thought I was going another print about lakes and topography as well.  I realized that this print would be challenging because in it, your eye and your brain were really doing battle.  Why was this?
New perspectives courtesy of Southwest Airlines.
I searched on-line for other examples of clouds and shadows, and was pleased to discover that there is a cognitive science explanation . . .
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Subject: Monoprints - All Week Long!



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This item is taken from the blog Lori Biwer-Stewart's Printmaking Blog.
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