Dazzling Dhalias

"Dazzling Dhalias" 
9" x 14" 
White line woodcut (Provincetown style) 

I made this to enter in a poster contest for the 15th Annual Dazzling Dahlia Festival at The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts. The winner of that contest ended up being Shannon Woodford. I haven't seen her winning painting yet, but I can't wait since I checked out her work on her website and her paintings of flowers are strikingly beautiful. 

Even though I didn't win, I enjoyed having the opportunity to make a white line woodcut of flowers that have natural gradations of bright colors. Since I don't have a lot of free time for lengthy art making processes like white line woodcuts, I have to find excuses to make the time to do them. The wooden bridge in the background in a landmark at The Bascom. 

White Line Portrait of Will

I've been playing around more with faux white line woodcuts using Scratch Art Scratchfoam that I draw into with pencil and print with markers. It's a particularly useful technique to be able to teach kids or short workshops to adults and still get the general look of a white line woodcut. This is a portrait of my husband that I made to test using Crayola markers. I just bought some higher quality Prismacolor markers and will experimenting with those later this week.