"Surprises"

Never before captured in paper.... wouldn't it be great if we all just got along and ate cake?!!? Here we seen a scene with a number of surprises and we're not really sure if they are all good.

This is perhaps one of my stranger scenes.. maybe :-)

This little box measures in at 5.25" wide, 3.25" tall, and almost 2" deep.

Tiny yummies

Small pieces to two other slightly larger works.

The Polite Hound

Printing is hard work!! I was at this tonight for 4 hours and only got 3 decent prints. I'm excited to work on printing a few more and getting one framed up for myself. It's gonna look great in my new living room surrounded by some other greyhound art! This is a large print 21" x 30"

Ta- Da (relief printing in action!)

For those of you who are unfamiliar with relief printing... here it is (at least the poor (wo)man's version of it)! I bought to pieces of unmounted linoleum then mounted them to a wood board. The wood has registration lines on it so I know just where I want to put the paper when I'm ready for it. I've been working on carving the image out over the last week and a half or so. The process of printing the print you see in the video took just over 10 minutes. This was the very first print made from this block so it's a "proof". I went back in and fixed a few areas that didn't show up very well. As you can see I'm not using a machine or press to print this but am doing it by hand so each print varies more than if press printed. And, if you were wondering, the floor is not an ideal place to print especially when you live with a dog that sheds like a fiend year round, BUT it was the only area I had big enough to accommodate this.

This will be on sale soon in my Esty shop :-)

next step print!

 

Finished with the block! Next step printing!!! Yay!

 

Progress....

Slowly but surely working away at this block.

A new print

I've been itching to do some relief printing so I put my other projects aside and started carving. So far so good but I still have a ways to go.