Antonio Frasconi, Mockingbird (woodcut)
Ian MacCulloch is an English traditional printmaker working mainly in etchings and linocuts. His stylistic images are easily recognised.
Ian MacCulloch is an English traditional printmaker working mainly in etchings and linocuts. His stylistic images are easily recognised.
When Laura and Emily brought back the below postcards from their inspiration trip to Old World Hungary, they could barely keep them away from me. I was ready to start designing graphics immediately. postcards of Károly’s Reich linocuts from Tea’s inspiration trip I saw on the back of the cards that they were by Károly …
I've recently rediscovered the delights of linocuts. So this year I've decided to have a go at printing the family Christmas card inste...
Linocut can create a host of visually striking and memorable images that will leave an impression. Here's a deep dive into everything you need to know about this relief printing technique.
A blog about relief printing, reduction linocuts, and the work of printmaker and nature illustrator Sherrie York.
Today is a blog post for fellow printmakers! It is about the importance of making use of texture in linocuts, especially if it is a one colour linocut. Texture adds interest and realism. You can create texture by using different sized tools. Here are some of my tools here. You can see they have different size cutting
It's with great pleasure that I announce "No Fences for Small Things" has been selected for inclusion in the Society of Animal Artists' 55th annual exhibition, Art & the Animal. The exhibition will open August 28, 2015 at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, New York. I'm all about exhibitions here this week, since I'm busily framing work for Friday's opening of Environments: Pressed and for the Colorado Governor's Invitational show and sale, which opens at the end of May. I'm also preparing work for several summer exhibitions, since I won't be here to take care of those tasks as they arise. Poor Presston looks like a framing table instead of a press, but he's taking it all with stoic good grace.
I don’t have any biographical information about Cesar T. Miranda (Argentina, 1922-2014), so we’ll have to take his pieces purely on their own merits. Unfortunately, even that can’t be as detailed a look as I’d like, since they have lots of very fine texture which I can’t quite make out on the computer screen. Another one I’d really love to examine in person! The fact of the very fine lines leads me to guess that Miranda worked with wood engraving tools, even though these pieces are listed as “woodcut.” Indeed, in the second piece it does look like there’s some wood grain showing, which would confirm woodcut carved on a plank, even if the tiny thin lines look like they were scratched out with engraving tools. All the more reason I wish I could get a closer look at these to get a clearer sense of Miranda’s method. The question of technique is only one of the interesting things about Miranda’s work. He also has an interesting style that combines representationalism with a very abstract use of shapes and patterns. The first piece shows a bird flying across a landscape of lance-shaped trees. I love the way the bird has at least five wings and a glow as if it were almost a shooting star. I like the way the wings, tail and wind(?) seem to weave among the trees. I like the patterns on some of the trees. The sky appears to be entirely filled with fine textures that look almost scribbly, and yet evoke distant hills and birds. The second piece is called “Smoker in the Window,” and although smoking is not something that I normally find at all attractive, there are once again some really interesting choices here. The way the rectangle of the window cuts across the man looks to me more like a noir-style shadow of a window. The texture around the mouth looks like deeply wrinkled lips, but the skritchy texture all over the face doesn’t seem to correspond to anything representational. My favorite thing about this one is the fun clouds of smoke. Finally, an exuberant garden in which the flowers look like fireworks. Once again it’s the engraving-style textures that give this woodcut its unique look, with zigzags, crosshatching, and an effervescent riot of shapes. It’s not easy to give an impression of a wildly blooming garden without any color, but Miranda has managed it. [Pictures: Paisaje con Pájaro, woodcut by Cesar T. Miranda, 1964; Fumador en la Ventana, woodcut by Miranda, 1964; Jardín Púrpura, woodcut by Miranda, 1964 (All images from Rhode Island School of Design).]
Ian MacCulloch is an English traditional printmaker working mainly in etchings and linocuts. His stylistic images are easily recognised.
Since his childhood days, Mark Hearld has had a love for nature and animals. He trained in Illustration at Glasgow School of Art and followed that up with an M.A. in Natural History Illustration at…
The Magpie - Australian bird of the year 2017 (source)
Below is one of my most recent linocut prints, Fox II, which along with a few other pieces will be on show at the Perth Festival of the Arts next month. http://www.perthfestival.co.uk/event/perth-art-trail/ A larger selection of my linocuts will also be on show in Norwich from 9th May - 28th June 2014 at the Assembly House Print Show http://www.assemblyhousenorwich.co.uk/
Ian MacCulloch is an English traditional printmaker working mainly in etchings and linocuts. His stylistic images are easily recognised.
painted woodcut block on salvaged Douglas Fir 10.5 x 13 x 1” Lisa Brawn 2010
Barbara Hanrahan was born in Adelaide. She studied to be an art teacher at Adelaide Teacher's College 1957-60 and attended evening printmaking classes with Udo Sellbach and Karin Schepers at the South Australian School of Art in the early 1960s. ...
These Grackles have been used as a kind of personality test among my friends. My buddies associate me with the good little bird on the left. Only my husband says I'm the guy in the center. Hmm... Common Grackles was carved from one block of lauan (background), three blocks of basswood plywood, an
