The greeting card design was based on Tarot imagery and the sacred heart. They are printed on any scraps or appropriately sized cardstock, and more are printed as I need them. I include a greeting card of some sort with all prints that I ship.
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April 28, 2023 · 7:00 am
Three Of Swords Greeting Card
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April 27, 2023 · 9:06 pm
The Age Of Exploration
“The Age Of Exploration” is five plates printed onto Speedball Arnhem 1618 Printmaking Paper using a homemade printing press. It is based on an image of Ernest Shackleton’s ship, The Endurance, which was shipwrecked in Antarctic ice floe.
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Tagged as antarctic, antarctica, block print, blockprint, endurance, lino, lino print, linoleum, linoprint, Print Making, printmaking, relief print, shackleton, ship, ship wreck, shipwreck, tall ship, wood block, woodblock
April 27, 2023 · 8:43 pm
Nicholas Assists The Wayward Mariner, And All Those Aboard
“Nicholas Assists The Wayward Mariner, And All Those Aboard” is 8 plates printed onto Speedball Arnhem 1618 Printmaking Paper. It was made using a homemade printing press.
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April 27, 2023 · 8:12 pm
Not Yet A Breach, But An Expansion
“Not Yet A Breach, But An Expansion” is two plates printed onto expired navigational charts. These charts had been used to navigate aboard Foss tugboats. The paper is high quality, untextured, and is not highly absorbent. This is the first print made using the printing press that my father and I made using a vice press to generate pressure. The title is a reference to John Donne’s poem, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.”
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April 27, 2023 · 7:44 pm
Daguerreotype
“Daguerreotype” is six plates printed onto either Speedball Arnhem 1618 Printmaking Paper or Canson Edition Paper. The Speedball paper ended up being best suited to the print, as I was still printing by hand, without the use of a mechanical press, and relied on an untextured paper in order to transfer the image smoothly.
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April 27, 2023 · 1:50 pm
The Christening
“The Christening” made use of five plates on Blick Masterprinter Paper. It is hand-printed without the use of a mechanical press.
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Tagged as block print, cal maritime, golden bear, linoleum, linoprint, ocean, Print Making, printmaking, relief print, ship, shipping, woodblock
April 27, 2023 · 1:34 pm
Flash: Tattoo For Conrad
“Flash: Tattoo For Conrad” is a single block printed on navigational training charts. The image is a variation on a design I’ve drawn and toyed with over the years. Here it’s conceived as a piece of flash, or tattoo art that hangs on studio walls to advertise the artist’s skill and inspiration for the customer.
Flash has come to be considered an artform of its own over the years. Here, I’m commemorating one of my favorite authors, Joseph Conrad, and the transformative value of literature.
$25
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Tagged as block print, flash, joseph conrad, linlprint, linoleum, literature, Print Making, printmaking, relief print, tattoo, woodblock
April 27, 2023 · 1:22 pm
Homage
“Homage” is made with two blocks on Cosmos Blotting Paper. I used blotting paper because I was still hand printing, and needed an absorbent and untextured paper to account for the pressure I could generate by manually. It was a run I made for my cousin, Barry Nitzberg, in commemoration of his father and grandfather, and their roots in Petaluma.
Sol Nitzberg, my grandmother’s uncle, was a union man in Santa Rosa, California, organized the apple pickers, and was tar and feathered in the streets by local businessmen and the sheriff.
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Tagged as apple, appletree, bird, block print, blockprint, clock tower, lino print, linoleum, petaluma, printmaking, relief print, time
April 26, 2023 · 4:49 pm
“Memento Mori”
“Memento Mori” is four blocks printed on Blick Printmaster Paper, and on bulk washi paper. They’re printed by hand, without any sort of mechanical press.
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Tagged as art, block print, linoprint, memento mori, print, printmaking, relief print, skull, woodblock
April 26, 2023 · 4:27 pm
Floral Pattern Greeting Card
The floral image is based on a vintage wallpaper design. The cards have been printed on appropriately sized scraps and cardstock. A greeting card of some variety is included with each print that I send.
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