Block: Cherry
Ink: Oil based Rembrandt
Paper: Beechgrove Paperworks BOS (Boys of Summer)
hand-made paper by M.J. Cole
Process: Standard woodcut drawn on site
Image: Done for a printmaker's calendar exchange. During
a return trip from Durango, Colorado last August I kept seeing these empty yucca
pods...I must have stopped 10 times looking for the right one to draw and must
have taken 50 shots of the darned things. They are Mohave Yucca seed pods, and
the intricacies of the shells fascinated me. I thought the beautiful paper by
itself captured the spirit of April, but since I am a printmaker, I had to slop
a glob of ink on it. Here's a detailed view of the print and of that gorgeous
paper.
Print is not for sale, done for a printmaker's exchange (that's how printmakers
have fun!)
