Bird card linocut on the vandercook -- printing brown

Thought I would post a little about my press. It's a Vandercook SP15 and this is a picture of the bird card I've been working on. Here the press is inked up in brown and I'm ready to print from the linocuts I completed last week:

And here is the second color being printed. Just a small block for the bird, the wire the bird is sitting on will remain the color of the card:

I'll post a picture of the completed card tomorrow!

custom order, no time to post

I've been working on both a custom order and a website recently (two separate new customers), so I haven't had much time to post lately. I thought instead I'd post a picture of one of my favorite motels. This was taken back in 2001 when my husband and I took a month off to take a road trip around the US. We covered over 8000 miles, and went from Massachusetts to Tennessee, out to Arizona, up California to Seattle, then east through Colorado and the midwest, and finally back to Massachusetts. This picture was taken in Kingman, AZ on Route 66. This is the motel that Timothy McVeigh stayed at the night before he bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City. We did not know it at the time we took the picture.

periodic table print project -- cadmium completed!

I've finally completed my cadmium print for the Periodic Table Print Project. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I printed on both heavy white paper and this brown card stock, but I think the brown color is better. The white paper I used had too rough of a texture and it grayed out the black a little too much for me. If you are interested in seeing the progress of this project, check out the flikr group for this project.

periodic table project linocut

Here is a look at the linoleum block I'm carving for my cadmium print. This is the finished block for laying down black. I'm about halfway through the second color block -- hopefully I'll be able to print something this week.

periodic table print project #2

Here is a sketch of what I'm planning to carve for the periodic table print project. Its just a rough drawing in Corel of what I'm planning to do. I've got the block so now all I have to do is carve!

i'm a bad poster

Real life got in the way of blog posting, but I hope to be more reliable soon. In the meantime, here is a picture of a new card I'm working on. It started out as a piece of art I created for the house, but I thought it would be perfect for a card. It's going to be a #10 business size with a nice Kraft paper envelope.

periodic table print project

I've joined this new print project that Azure Grackle has started, its called the PERIODIC TABLE PRINT PROJECT. Basically different printmakers each choose an element to make a 6x6 block print from, and they will be assembled into one giant periodic table! I chose Cadmium. I'll post pics of my blocks here as they are carved. By the way, here are still elements available if there are any interested printmakers out there!