When I was in my twenties, my good friend Ardis Macaulay did a kind of oracular reading for me of her David Carson Medicine Cards, and from that, I was left to understand that my innermost essential animal spirit was … Continue reading
Category Archives: Woodcut
I spent last week at Chimera House as the first guest at this new artist retreat. Chimera House is a huge, multi-roomed and extravagantly porched circa 1890’s house in Jeffersonville, NY, in the Catskills. Before it became a retreat, the … Continue reading
Happy New Year, everyone!! This is a print of a woodcut by Utagawa Hiroshige that depicts the New Years Eve Journey of the Foxes to the Changing Tree. I like it so much! The foxes are carrying foxfires (magical, not … Continue reading
This is a total drooly fanatic post about Tugboat Printshop, a Pittsburgh, PA concern. I discovered Tugboat on Pinterest and am entranced with their work. This is their website: http://www.tugboatprintshop.com/ They have gorgeous woodcuts for sale for reasonable prices. There … Continue reading
Rives BFK is my favorite go-to paper for every purpose. It is has a gorgeous, buttery surface, it is a wonderful printmaking paper, accommodating relief (in a press) as well as intaglio. I love to draw on it, with pencil … Continue reading
www.createmixedmedia.com is hosting a giveaway of my new book. Just go to the site, enter a comment by August 10, then check in on Monday the 13th to see if you … Continue reading
I saw Bryan Nash Gill’s beautiful book, Woodcut, new from Princeton Architectural Press at The Book Expo at Javits Center. The artwork is wonderful–slices of trees, inked and printed. They look like planets or maps, their rings and the spaces between … Continue reading