Groundhog Day 2022

 

woodcut printed in oil-based ink on Kraft cardstock

This year the good ol' groundhog can't even be bothered to come out. Shadow or not, he's staying in his hole. 

While hopefully viewers find some humor here, it is a dark humor. I wish this year's Groundhog Day card design could have been more positive. We're now into the third year of a global pandemic that is gradually shifting to endemic. Still scary, but we're also all just so damned fatigued. It's hard to get excited about anything anymore because so many plans have been cancelled. Most of us who have survived this thing are now a couple years older, poorer, and more melancholy than we were before it began. Work is far more constant than joy.

Who could blame the fuzzy little guy for his reluctance to emerge? 

This is my 8th annual Groundhog Day card. If you'd like to see the previous years' designs, here are the links.

Groundhog Day 2014 
Groundhog Day 2015 (I skipped 2016)
Groundhog Day 2017
Groundhog Day 2018 
Groundhog Day 2019
Groundhog Day 2020 
Groundhog Day 2021 

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"Apples"

 

"Apples" 
2 versions of a Linocut with chine colle, 6”x 6” (block). 

We've been enjoying a lot of apples this autumn, and I just love how this print turned out! 

This is the fourth print created for my 2022 art calendar illustrating select items from my CSA. 

The process for these is that I arrange, photograph, sketch first, then carve into a linoblock and print, adding chine collé of for color. I will eventually be doing a hand-colored version. 

This is supposed to be in connection with the Red Earth Farm CSA project I did in 2018. 

"Watermelon"

 

"Watermelon" 
2 versions of a Linocut with chine colle, 6”x 6” (block). 

This is the fifth print created for my 2022 art calendar illustrating select items from my CSA. Our family enjoys watermelon all summer, and this was a drawing from the last watermelon of this summer season that I bought. 

The process for these is that I arrange, photograph, sketch first, then carve into a linoblock and print, adding chine collé of for color. I will eventually be doing a hand-colored version. 

This is supposed to be in connection with the Red Earth Farm CSA project I did in 2018. 

"Rainbow Chard"

 

"Rainbow Chard" 
2 versions of a Linocut with chine colle, 6”x 6” (block). 

This is the fourth print created for my 2022 art calendar illustrating select items from my CSA. 

The process for these is that I arrange, photograph, sketch first, then carve into a linoblock and print, adding chine collé of for color. I will eventually be doing a hand-colored version. 

This is supposed to be in connection with the Red Earth Farm CSA project I did in 2018. 

"Sunflowers"

 

"Sunflowers" 
2 versions of a Linocut with chine colle, 6”x 6” (block). 

This is the third print created for my 2022 art calendar illustrating select items from my CSA. 

The process for these is that I arrange, photograph, sketch first, then carve into a linoblock and print, adding chine collé of for color. I will eventually be doing a hand-colored version. 

This is supposed to be in connection with the Red Earth Farm CSA project I did in 2018. 

"Mini Sweet Peppers"

 

"Mini Sweet Peppers" 
3 versions of a Linocut with chine colle, 6”x 6” (block). 

This is the second print created for my 2022 art calendar illustrating select items from my CSA. 

The process for these is that I arrange, photographe, sketch first, then carve into a linoblock and print, adding chine collé of for color. I'm also doing to do a hand-colored version after the ink dries on the others I printed. (Not there yet, but soon!)  

This is supposed to be in connection with the Red Earth Farm CSA project I did in 2018.