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.)
