Seven Day Challenge Day 5

Faubourg Nam Main Bon Dieu  (with Laura Ladendorf)  Large ( 22 x 30”) woodcut with numerous small rubber eraser material cuts, watercolor, and copier transfer underlayer  

Done in celebration of growing up in New Orleans near Bayou St. John and the race track.

Seven Day Challenge Day 4

This little house is called Temporary Shelter.  It ‘s one of the first 3-D pieces I did in the late 90s/early 2000s.  

It’s 15” high x 7” wide x 7” deep, made of  bookbinder’s board covered with paper and lined with pen and ink and watercolor drawings.

Seven Day Challenge, Day Three

Monotypes are a kind of painted print.  On a sunny morning I set up this informal still life and rolled out oil ink onto a zinc plate using a brayer.  After a couple of hours of rag wiping, painting, texture impressing and more brayering, I lay the plate face up on my press with a piece of damp etching paper on it and felt blankets on top of plate and paper.  I cranked the whole sandwich through the press,  and out came this print.  I did the second one the same way.

This third print is a monotype done with reference to a photo of a falling-down house on my friend’s property.

Seven Day Challenge

Both of these are of my friend J, who was among the many friends and family members who would put up with modeling for me as I turned into sort of a roving court reporter, recording whatever the people around me were doing.  Both drawings are fairly large graphite and wash.

Seven Day Challenge

This print is from the seventies when I was an undergrad art student doing many figure studies and learning how to make relief prints.  It’s around 13 x 15 inches and printed on Japanese hosho paper. 

Test

In-Process

A friend wrote and asked me about our process on this piece.   First my friend and I immersed ourselves in research about the history and pre-history of this little slackwater bayou we both used to live near.  Then we got together every few weeks and began brainstorming and sketching layouts.  We also started carving eraser blocks of early flora and fauna from an 18th century book we managed to find about this very bayou!  Eventually I sawed up a large piece of birch plywood for the background print.  We spent a couple of afternoons printing the sawn block.  Then we would sit together and work side by side on two of the proofs using our collection of stamps and dome water soluble crayons and watercolors.  We’re still at that stage, going very slowly on our two proofs.  Here’s mine propped up still in process in my kitchen.