Since the lockdown I have been looking at, and working in, the gardens a lot and they have taken on some new life in recent paintings. This is from watching monarch buttlerflies in our porterweed plant this past fall.
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| Porterweed 24 x 18 Oil on Canvas panel |
Below are some photos of the process for a new 7 color reduction linocut print. The photos aren't that great but detail some of the process. I hand printed this one instead of using the press.
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| I covered the plate with a stencil and rolled ink only on the area to be orange |
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| Original sketch |
In my continuing effort to explore reduction linocut I made a 4 color print for my 2021 New Years cards. I used the Caligo Safe Wash inks and Ternes Burton registration pins on this 16 print edition. The registration pins worked perfectly and the inks were a vast improvement on what I had originally tried. The only issue I had was that I underestimated the drying time for the last colors. They barely made it in the mail by New Years and were still a little tacky.... The learning process continues.
