LONE CONE LINE - Hand-colored

Lone Cone Line - Hand Colored

Here is another variation on the Lone Cone Line print.

This time with hand coloring added to the black ink.

It's been a busy summer and I am just now getting back to my woodblock project.

Next print - THE NORWOOD APPLE

 

Last Print in Spain

BLACK COW/WHITE/COW

This image is after a drawing by Milton Avery titled Black Goat/White Goat, 1958.
It is in the collection of the Arkansas Arts Center. The Center has one of the largest collections of works on paper in the country. You can see this drawing by searching their website at www.arkarts.com

This is the last woodblock print I did in Spain. 

I was working on a press with Liliana Lima de Lázaro and Ayax Paris

at their Academia Asociación Delarrarte in Logroño.

http://adelarrarte.blogspot.com

I will miss their printmaking expertise, our lively conversations in Spanish

and above all our friendship as I continue the Twelve Views of Lone Cone in my studio in Colorado.

Chine-Collé Continued

Here are some photos showing the process of chine-collé. The bright colors of the tissue paper keep bringing to mind Andy Warhol's prints of Vesuvius that I mentioned in an earlier post.

Lili and Ayax preparing to place the green to print the chine-collé.

Putting the green in place.

On the press bed ready to print.

The finished print.
Lone Cone Line, Blue, Yellow, Green

 Here are some of the color variations hanging in my studio.

Playing with colors!

FROM THE PRINT SHOP

Fooling around with Chine-Collé

Chine-collé is a special technique in printmaking in which the image is transferred to a surface (in this case the colored tissue paper) that is bonded to the heavier support in the printing process. Here the purpose is to provide a background color, the sky, behind the image that is different from the surrounding backing sheet.

It was fun choosing the different colors and seeing how they changed the feeling of the print.

SIX COLOR REDUCTION WOODBLOCK PRINT - FINISHED

FROM THE STUDIO - One more color to go!

BLUE OF THE SKY

GREEN ARE THE PINES

ROCKY MOUNTAIN GRAY

PINK COVERED HILL

GRAY GREEN BUSHES

RED-ISH BRANCHES OF THE OAKBRUSH

next block/next blog post

NO BLACK ASPENS!

Aspens take on the appearance of different colors, not just white, and under certain lighting conditions can appear quite dark, but no black aspens! After proofing this print a few weeks ago I decided to carve the trunk out to make it white. 

Here is the latest print, a departure for sure, from a more representational scene. 

Inspired by a woodblock print titled, Yarrow, by Alex Katz.

I decided to try a simple line "drawing" of Lone Cone with a forest foreground.

On the left, white ink on toned paper, right, dark gray ink on white paper.

Three proofs in the studio.

White line on toned paper.