“Ocean Giant” is a single plate printed on Navigational Charts as well as Wanderings Handmade White Deckle Edge Blank Paper. These charts were used in the navigation of the Ocean Giant, SeaCor’s heavy lift ship. A shop press in the engine room of the ship was used as a printing press.
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“St. Christopher” used five plates printed onto navigational charts. These charts were used in navigation of Foss tugboats.
St. Christopher is the patron saint of travelers and sailors. He was a giant who offered to carry a child across a rushing river. When, halfway across, he began to struggle under an unbearable weight, the small child, revealed to be Christ, explained that St. Christopher was holding the weight of the world and responsibility for its safe passage as he crossed the river.
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“Still Life Of Anniversary Bouquet” is six plates printed onto BFK Rives Printmaking Paper, White, 300 GSM. It was made using a home made printing press. This was a run of 70 prints and they were given away as a gift to guests who attended our wedding.
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Tagged as anniversary, block print, blockprint, bouquet, flowers, hour glass, lino, lino print, linoleum, linoprint, print, printmaking, reduction print, relief print, still life, wedding, wood block, woodblock
“The Anchor Radius” used three plates printed onto navigational charts. These charts were used in navigation of Foss tugboats. “Anchor Radius” is a term describing how far an anchored vessel can pivot around a fixed point (the fast anchor).
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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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“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
“Covid 19” is a woodblock print made using a single, laser-carved plate. I designed the image, and then commissioned Mike Stark at Pink Line Press to carve the block for me. The image is printed by hand, without the use of a mechanical press, onto Thai Kozo Paper.
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“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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“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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“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
Josh Barlas