Monday, November 16, 2009

Pregnancy Portrait


The drawing on the block.

Here, on the sleeve, I accidentally carved out part of my line. I patched it with some scraps from carving and wood glue, then carved the patch. I'm really surprised it worked.


The carved block with ink.







My stencil to cut the shirt from decorative paper. This was my first time doing chine collé with woodblock. My idea is to do a varied edition and try different papers within the edition.














Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Puppets!

The weekend was pretty rough (don't ever get vertigo), so it wasreally nice to relax and spend some quality time with the kiddies yesterday. Here's what we made: