My only woodcut
Monday, August 30th, 2004
This is a woodcut I did sophomore year in printmaking and one of the few worthwhile things I produced in that class (one of the others being the dove print). I didn’t keep the blocks for either of those prints, unfortunately, although I bet my teacher still has them around somewhere. The official title of this one is Proof that God has a sense of humor because the original photo of this is the craziest-looking thing ever. I loved the expression on the fish’s face, which I think I captured fairly well in the print. This is actually one of the test prints, since they turned out best. After the first few, the ink started getting caught in some of the finer lines and I lost a lot of detail. I decided I like linoluem block printing (like the dove) better than woodcuts, just because the linoluem is easier to cut. (On the other hand, we were using cheap wood.)
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or a Christmas card and obviously inspired by Picasso’s dove drawings. I also have a couple that I did in several different colors–gold letters, blue background, green leaf, etc. Probably around 20 all told, although most of them were sent out as cards and no doubt thrown out. My art teacher made me add the little dashes to the dove after I finished the multi-color ones. She said it was for “texture” but really, I think it was to stall me, since I finished before almost everyone else. *sigh* They look weird.
This is one of my all-time favorites. It’s from my Studio Survey class and was our “cubism” project. We started out with a realistic line drawing of a traditional portrait and gradually transformed it into something Cubist. The project itself was a lot of fun and I really like the way it turned out. It was originally a detail of a painting by someone Spanish. (Goya? Velazquez? I honestly don’t remember.) I did this one junior year in studio survey. Update: I looked it up. It’s a detail of 
