Shark Attack
http://www.etsy.com/listing/83590390/shark-attack-woodcut-blank-notecard?ref=pr_shop
I finally put 2 & 2 together and started making cards out of my woodcuts. I tend to make woodcuts that are relatively small anyway. Part of this is accidental, like lets say that half of a print doesn’t turn out as well as the other half…..
womp, womp, womp.
But the other reason is that I think it is much harder to do a larger hand-pressed woodcut print and have it turn out with even distrubution of ink etc. You press so hard with your arms that just printing a few of them will wear you out! So that’s why I don’t generally do huge prints.
OceanLiner Woodcut Blank Notecard
http://www.etsy.com/listing/83369323/oceanliner-woodcut-blank-notecard?ref=pr_shop
I guess you could say this is a composite of what me or one of my friends would look like if we were a mermaid. I think it looks kind of Nordic.
I made this closer to when I was first starting real estate. I like the idea of visualizing my efforts at something to make them stronger. So when I mail out marketing information I picture the letters filtering out over vast areas.
College lithograph print about a whale. A friend had told me that if whales go down too deep the pressure can make them explode. This whale saw a picnic basket at the bottom of the ocean and it entices him to go down too deep. This is his final glorious moment before he explodes.
Ok, so it’s not the best picture in the world. Old college stuff.
College print. I gave one print of it to a friend and she still has it in her bathroom. It was for a book we had to work on. This person thinks she’s having a peaceful moment alone, but little does she know a dinosaur lurks…
Another old print. This was about how I thought cats were creepy at the time. I thought that they would be a lot like snakes if they had no appendages and I really didn’t appreciate it. I also felt like when they looked at me they could look into my soul or see my thoughts. Of course I didn’t really think that to be true, but I didn’t like that look in their eyes.
Another college print. I was getting Graves disease at the time and no one could tell me what I was getting yet. Nervewracking. I couldn’t sleep but had to nap during the day, I felt so weak I was exhausted just from standing up to make the print. So the print became about that. The ladder signifies not being able to get to where you used to be. Your prized labrador is no longer alive, yet still playfully wearing a rain slicker hat, out of your reach for comfort. Your legs are tired and not capable of the athletic capacity they used to be capable of. And you wish you could escape it all.
Another college print. And looking back on it, it seems grandiose and out of control. I tend to go overboard with my passions. Ahh well.
This is another print from college. I will put a lot of my old college ones on here before putting more recent ones because I don’t have as many recent ones. Anywho, this was of a girl who is sending wind-up ducks out into the water and they then turn around and come back to her. I guess it represents a simple calmness & joy.
this is khakiman – a man obsessed with khaki. he feels whoozy having to face the array of colors confronting him in the real world and prefers “neutrals.” I guess you could say this is sort of my revenge on the fact that colors in home decor, fashion etc. are often of a dull bland neutral palette and it doesn’t give life the full zest it deserves.
