Category: Prints and Printmaking
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Tugboat Printshop: Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth
Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth are collaborative artists working in woodblock prints, and are also husband and wife. Tugboat Printshop is their online store and gallery. The site not only showcases their work but is in large part devoted to process, and details various aspects of the creation and production of their prints. Their work…
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Durer’s Melencolia I
Meloncolia I, Albrecht Dürer. One of the most iconic engravings by one of art’s great printmakers, Melelcolia (an archaic spelling of melancholia) is filled with symbols of alchemy and carpentry (architecture), along with various measuring tools, an hourglass, a polyhedron and a “magic square” — the rows of which add up to 34 in all…
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Eye Candy for Today: M.C. Escher’s Up and Down
Up and Down, M.C. Escher. One of my favorites from Escher, a simple and elegant brain twist from the master of pulling your perceptions out from under you (and this inspiration for this panel from my webcomic).
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Sherrie York
Sherrie York is a Colorado artist who works primarily in the medium of reduction linocut. This is a relief printing method in which the run of a given print is done in stages of impressions from the same block —as the block is re-cut and reduced in printing surface to be printed in a different…
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Japanese Prints of the 18th and 19th Century
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow has placed online a catalog of their collection of Japanese Prints from the 18th and 19th centuries. You can browse through sections for landscapes, beauties, actors, warriors, sumo wrestlers, flowers and birds. You can also browse by artist or school, and there are additional reference materials.…
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Whistler’s etchings (round 2)
Etchings, for me, have a kind of visual magic. There is something about the character of etched lines that is entrancing in a way quite distinct from other forms of drawing or graphics. I find it hard to isolate exactly why. Partly, I suppose, it’s the fine line available with an etching needle and carefully…