Cabbage Hands, a reduction print in progress

Cabbage Hands in Yellow

Linoleum block print -- two blocks, four colors

8" X 10"

2016

Here's how I did it:

First I carved out all the white areas -- background, cabbage veins, fingernails. 

Then I printed flesh color.

I decided I wanted the option of printing a colored background, so I had to carve a new block for that as I'd already carved out the background on the first block. I printed the background in four colors -- yellow, blue, green, and silver. 

Then I carved out the hands on the first block and printed purple.

I decided that the purple was too dark so I reprinted it in a lighter color.  

Finally I printed the black key block.

This is just the black key block.

Cabbage Hands in Blue

Linoleum block print -- two blocks, four colors

8" X 10"

2016

Cabbage Hands in Silver

Linoleum block print -- two blocks, two colors

8" X 10"

2016

Cabbage Hands in White

Linoleum block print -- one block, three colors

8" X 10"

2016

BTW, that's Tom's home-grown cabbage and, of course, his hands!

Twisted Carrots

Twisted Carrots

Reduction Linoleum Block Print

One block: five colors

4" X 6" 

2016

Tom has decided he likes vegetable art for a change, so I carved this lino-block print for him for our 33rd wedding anniversary. Yes, he grew the twisted carrots! 

I'm fascinated with reduction prints because they're such brutal brain teasers. One block. Five colors. Multiple printings. Painstaking registery. I just wonder when I'll ever get the hang of it!

Three Jack Russells

Seamus

Rough-coated Jack Russell terrier

4" X 6" colored pen-and-ink

2016

Otis

Smooth-coated Jack Russell terrier

4" X 6" colored pen-and-ink

2016

Lucy

Broken-coated Jack Russell terrier

4" X 6" colored pen-and-ink

2016

Three Terrier Triptych

These are the first PenPets portraits I've drawn in our new town (Belfast, Maine), in my new backyard studio, in a new size (4" X 6"). They're perfect examples of the different coats Jack Russells come in -- rough, smooth, and broken.