Ethnicity Through the Eyes of the Artist

 

"Practicing Accordion"
9" x 12" 
Linocut with chine colle 

This depicts my 11 year old practicing their instrument while the puppies howl. I made it to submit to the exhibition "Ethnicity Through the Eyes of the Artist" at Abington Art Center, juried by Erika Land, Nina Guzman, and Cheryl Harper. I was already going to submit recent versions of "Stirring" and "Chopping" (below), but I could include 3 works in my submission, so I decided to make this print in the same medium and style. This print wasn't accepted into the show, but I'm so glad I made it. 

Happily, "Stirring" and "Chopping" will be included in the exhibition, which opens June 9th (reception from 6-8PM) and runs through July 24. 

Year of the Rabbit 2023

 

My Year of the Rabbit print for a card exchange with Baren Forum. The one I mailed out was printed in black ink on fawn-colored Stonehenge with white paper chine colle for the rabbit. But this version I made for myself, with chine colle for all the sections. We haven't had much of a winter in PA this season, so I wanted a brown hare, not a white one. 

This is my 6th year participating in  New Year's Exchanges with the Baren Forum for Woodblock Printmaking. Here are my prints from previous years' trades: 

Year of the Tiger, 2022
Year of the Ox, 2021 
Year of the Rat, 2020
Year of the Pig, 2019 
Year of the Dog. 2018 

"Carrots"

 

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

Ah, the colorful vegetable that's in season all year round. Most of the carrots I get in my CSA end up in the juicer. Although sometimes I make cooked "honey carrots" for the kids.

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. 

"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.  

"Tomatoes (Slicers)"

 

"Tomatoes (Slicers)" 
Linocut with chine collé on white Stonehenge 
8" x 8" 

I've been working on some illustrations of items from my CSA toward creating a 2022 art calendar. 

Below are some different versions of this same image of some tomatoes I arranged, photographed, sketched and watercolor painted, carved into a linoblock and printed. I'm also doing to do a hand-colored version after the ink dries on the others I printed. 

This is supposed to be in connection with the Red Earth Farm CSA project I did in 2018. This was a time-based conceptual paper making project that lasted the duration of the CSA (22 weeks). In 2019 I added a couple illustrative woodcuts with chine collé of myself engaged in the project. 

At the time I had also considered illustrating many of the actual items (local fruit, vegetables, herbs, and flowers) I received every week, but never really landed on an approach. But the idea stuck in my brain, and this year combined with my desire to do a 2022 art calendar. Since I never could decide on an approach to how to illustrate these items, I've decided to just photograph and draw and paint and print and I'm even going to make some ceramic trivets with glazed illustrations, in the hopes that 12 cohesive images for a calendar will come out of it in time. Conceptually, that seems to align best with the original project which had to do with the process of domestic chores connected with acquiring and preparing food. During that project, there were time constraints and rules to the projects, and whatever paper came out of the process, that was the finished product. Here it will be the same. I'm going to produce these images in the time frame I have available, and when the deadline arrives, I'll make a decision about whether I have something publishable or not. 

Below are some of the other versions of this image I made so far. 

"Faolan"

 

"Faolan" 
8" x 10" 
Woodcut with chine-collé
Unique print 

This a commemorative wood block print of a friend's dog that passed away within the last year. I only met this sweet dog once, but really enjoyed his company. He lived with Lucy, who also passed away a few months ago. I managed to snap a good photo of Faolan and used it as a reference for this print. I decided on chine-collé to capture the mottled colors in his fur. 

all his sweet and shaggy life,
always near me, never troubling me,
and asking nothing.

-Pablo Neruda 

"Submission Fee No. 158"

"Submission Fee No. 158" 4" x 5.5" Linocut with chine colle Edition of 3 Pay what you want by August 21

This print is part of a time-based conceptual art project. Read more about it here.

INFO PARTICULAR FOR THIS PRINT:

Institution:   National Collage Society, Inc.
Venue Location: ONLINE 

Opportunity:  2020 Juried Exhibit 

Eligibility:

Potential Benefits for Artists:
Notes:  
Fee:   $50 for non NCS members, $15 for current NCS Members 

"Sunflower Series #8" by Ouida Touchón

Image used with the permission of the artist. More of Ouida Touchon's work can be found at her website.

The sunflowers have all bend and bowed, petals wilted and turned dull brown. We feel our longing for them in the chilled air and the call of hungry birds.

Kids' Relief Print Fish with Chine Colle

Last week I subbed a class at the University City Arts League and worked with a group of adorable mostly Kindergarten and 1st grade students. I had the kids rip up tissue paper and glue it to a paper as a "water" background. Then they each took a fish shape cut out of Scratch Art Scratchfoam, drew into it, and printed their fish onto the collages. It got sort of chaoic in class and at one point they started printing on each  others' collages, with wonderful results.

Bubble Wrap and Chine Colle with Middle Schoolers

Today was the last day of the Winter session of my 2D mixed media after school class for 4th-6th graders at the University City Arts League. These are some collograph prints over tissue paper collage.

I've been playing with bubble wrap lately, so I wanted to let them play with bubble wrap too. Who doesn't like bubble wrap?