“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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April 27, 2023 · 1:50 pm
The Christening
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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.
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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 25, 2023 · 4:17 pm
“The Voyage”
“The Voyage” was what I considered to be my first successful linoprint. It’s a reduction print, meaning that I carved more and more out of the same block for each successive printing. I used a frame that my dad made for me as a register. The block was carved and printed four times to create each tone of gray.
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