I carved up a few reproductions of medieval beasties found in manuscripts from the early 14th century this week.

I’ve already got 6 more transferred to linoleum & ready to carve. I’m trying to make a big collection of these because I think they’ll look so fun on garments or as bunting + it’s honestly a really fun exercise in studying gesture & characterization …… we’ve always desired to make up freaky deaky little dudes?? It’s hard wired, baked into our very humanity??

Gustave Doré  (6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) .

my docs cork board block print

Hasui Kawase.

Ghost Hunt, Line etch + aquatint intaglio, Kim Craig 2024

Did you know I made this handy zine to introduce people to the pleasures of multicolor linocut?☺️🫶 I'll revise it soon.

test print detail shots 3/6/24

Little preview of what I’m working on for the spooky season. 👻🎃🐈‍⬛✨

💥MOMENT OF TRUTH💥

5x7" linocut on 8x10" paper

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Kawase Hasui

Kude Beach, Wakasa

1920

William H. Johnson, Blind Singer, ca. 1940. Screenprint with tempera additions.

Johnson was among the foremost painters of African-American life during the Harlem Renaissance. Born in South Carolina and educated in fine arts in New York and Provincetown, Johnson spent most of his time from the mid-1920s to the late 1930s in Europe, where he was influenced by Post-Impressionism and Expressionism. After achieving critical acclaim abroad, he returned to New York permanently in 1938 under the threat of war and with a desire to reconnect to his roots. The move produced a dramatic change in his work. Assigned by the government's Works Progress Administration to teach at the Harlem Community Art Center, Johnson became immersed in the sights, sounds, and people of New York's African-American community, which he captured in compositions of flat shapes, patterned designs, and brilliant colors that were distinctly modernist in their simplicity and directness.

During his lifetime, Johnson created more than seventy-five prints. While in Europe he produced woodcuts and linoleum cuts, usually with hand coloring, inspired by the raw power of German Expressionism. After returning to New York, he took up screenprint and pochoir, techniques that suited his new embrace of simplified forms and bold colors. He printed these works on assorted found papers and often completed his images by hand with tempera, making each print slightly different from the next. He frequently experimented with subjects by printing compositional variants and also rendering them in drawing and painting, each format enriching the other, but with the printed versions the most simplified of all.

Notable among Johnson's New York prints are those that capture the essence of Harlem's fashion, music, and dance. This print, entitled Blind Singer, shows a pair of musicians in an open-air performance that was common on the city's bustling streets. The composition's flatness, pure color, and orchestrated angularity endow this still image with a sense of rhythmic motion and dynamic energy. --Judy Hecker, in Deborah Wye, Artists and Prints: Masterworks from The Museum of Modern Art

Photo & text: MoMA

“becoming” banner by jasper alexander

linocut print on fabric, home sewn utilizing recycled textiles

cut your hair

screen print

This poster is one of my favorite little details in bg3 and in game it even looks like it's block printed so I HAD to recreate it. Here's a snapshot into the carving and printing process~

Is he findable in game though??? Forreal I need to knowww T^T

dribbling

I first became aware of Mary Frank through this photo and shortly after came the idea that I should build a time machine.

Mary Frank, a renowned beauty, was photographed by many famous photographers. It turns out that is not a terribly useful thing as most people are more interested in famous photographers. But most people are boring so we shouldn’t worry too much.

Mary is an Artist and has been making art since the 1950′s, and still does today.

Mary is also a time traveler and I think I have come across her more than once in the last 1000 years.

Untitled (Prone Man, Two Trees) touches me. The Prone Man is as charcoal black and burnt as the Two Trees. Does he lie in the blue stream in an attempt (although too late) to quell the fire of his ambition?

The land the man and trees occupy is small but appears to be part of a larger continent.

The outline to the East is familiar. It is a map of a coast I have seen in a dream, of a land where time travelers come ashore.

- One Kindred Spirit

Photograph by Robert Frank - Mary with Large Daisy in her Hair (1953)

Painting by Mary Frank - Untitled (Prone Man, Two Trees) 2002