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Something I’m still working on.

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My little egg painting done. 9x5 oil on wood

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A thumbnail sketch for an oil painting. Ode to the lovely onion in graphite and conte pencil, 2023

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A thumbnail sketch for an oil painting. Ode to the lovely onion in graphite and conte pencil. 2023

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Printmaking Friday! My favourite day😊 Grass from my garden, monoprint.

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So gorgeous! Love the colour combinations. Teal and pink are my faves,

what are you looking at? 👀

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I have been using new pencils in procreate to do my linocut drawings. Chromagraph set is so good!

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Chasm. Environment practice from a few years back! This piece actually became the cover for my book "Draw and Paint Better with Krita", available now in both digital and physical!

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Learning to paint landscapes by painting small daily. This was done with gouache. I’m telling you I almost gave up during the ugly stage. Told myself to be strong. Trust the damn process!

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Final print of the semester!

“Dissolution” Silkscreen on paper, 2022.

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Inagaki Tomoo Cat and Christmas Tree

Woodblock print

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Katja Lang (Ger 1968)

Winterlandscape

Drypoint

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A Series of Meticulously Carved Panels Combine Layers of Color to Make Tugboat Printshop’s ‘River’ Woodcut

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[image description: 3 photos of a combination letterpress & hand-inked illustration print, and a photo of the forme of handset type used to print the letterpress elements. the illustration is of a person on a black background, their curly hair backlit, wearing a wide-shouldered and wide-lapeled jacket and trousers. the motion of their dangling earring and bent knees imply a snapshot of dancing. The letterpress printed element is the pattern on the jacket and pants: a decorative border that’s simply blocks of fine lines, arranged in a slightly randomized combination of concentric squares, encircling and intersecting with each other, some printed in silver and some in pink. over that are a few plain, long lines of cyan, and scattered over that is a scattering of paler cyan boxes. This pattern is continuous and flatly applied across all the fabric in the illustration: it doesn’t bend or break across seam lines, folds, or across lines between the jacket and the pants. the forme of handset lead type is an assemblage of relief printing pieces, with different types of pieces to turn corners, align different directions, or fill negative space with no printing surface. each color in the print requires a different arrangement of pieces, assembled and then disassembled to reclaim the pieces for use in a different forme. end description.]

it is difficult for me to remember that i did this one desPITE the fact i haven’t even finished inking the whole edition yet because i uuuh finished inking exactly three of them just in time to include footage of the whole process for a presentation about these combination prints for the Book Arts Guild—and then diverted completely to finish editing the presentation—and now that that’s posted i am finally, slowly finishing inks on the rest in downtime. haha jk what’s downtime i am not free i am simply avoiding important emails

there’s a lot more info in that video about process & some thoughts about this one in particular! but in brief, i watched a recording of the Purple Rain concert tour, which i don’t pretend to know much about but my gaydar went haywire about Wendy Melvoin; im a huge sucker for big sparkly blocks of a matching suit set; pink & blue bring joy to my color cones, etc.

the whole presentation is here; the Q&A afterward from the meeting wasn’t recorded (sorry, i didn’t know that’s how it was done ahead of time) but my askbox is always open for questions about printing process! i mean it’s just open. but i only know important stuff about printing.

edition available on etsy

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Koizumi Kishio

New Year’s Day on Niju Bridge (Shôgatsu no Nijubashi) January 1932

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Confused cat

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Quick thumbnail sketch of a moth for a painting I’m planning to do. Gouache thumbs are my way of practising how to be more gestural which is my big goal for this new year 😊