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Welcome to Relief Printmaking.

Below to the left is a woodcut that I did during a one-day workshop at the University of Colorado at Boulder. It is 24 inches high. I only printed one. It is a Relief Color Woodblock, Reduction technique. It is entitled, "Reading 101." To the right of that is a Moku Hanga Japanese style woodblock that I did on Shina plywood. It was done during a workshop with April Vollmer at the Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, Colorado.

Loving doomsday subjects like I do, this woodblock to the left below should not surprise anyone. It is 24 by 36 inches, done on a joined basswood block and printed on Masa paper with water-based ink. It is entitled, "The Incident of the Haze in Denver." The image to the right of that is a rubbing with litho crayon, it is a scene that I have been working on for a couple of months. It is from a photograph taken in my back yard when the apples were being harvested.

The two woodblocks below were 27 inches long. They were done with multiple blocks for color and a key block at the end. The one to the left is entitled, "Oriental III," and the one to the right is entitled, "Oriental II." "Oriental I" was a block twice their size. I no longer have prints of that one.

Above are two relief prints: the one on the left is a large-scale woodblock print, made from joined basswood and printed on Torinoko Japanese paper with oil-based ink. It is entitled, "Red Rides the Hood: Hungry Cubs." To the right of that one, is a small (5 X 7 inches) reduction linoleum print, and this work is entitled, "Misery." Another name I have given this one is "Trash Talking Art Teachers."

This work was done by making a linoleum block with key lines and another linoleum block used as a painting surface, and treated like a monoprint. It is entitled, "St. John's Cathedral" and is located in downtown Madrid in Spain.