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Tca'dūwel-ma, the abode of dead across the sea where only coyote and the dead may go. One of the earliest mini prints
Part of the upper watershed where newts and yellow legged frogs dwell in pools that adjoin cascading waterfalls.
Spilled it, lost it, it’s gone
Ink layout
Carving, wip, a little preview of the next block
The behemoth
One of the earliest linocuts I made, big bulky line work.
My dream version of Lilium pardalinum, they grow along the streams and river here
Desk editions
The final scanned image
Wip carving the last seal print. I always start with the crux of block first, which in this case is the head/whiskers
Wip.
Someone asked me the other day if I transfer images to the blocks I want to carve and the answer is no. Every print is essentially 3 separate art pieces, all sketched and done directly on the block. The pencil layout, which establishes the composition, the ink layout which sets up the loose guidelines I follow, and then finally, the carving itself, which is a completely different part of my brain to the last two stages.
The final scanned image to a project that spanned more than a year in the making. The end feels happy and sad, but also freeing to return to a backlog of other ideas.
The seal with the spots is based on one I swim with up here, a nod.