Leave a Comment · Posted on August 13, 2013
Our Show at Kafka’s in Vancouver
We’re finishing up our work, getting ready to hang it tomorrow in time for the opening on Thursday, August 15. My pieces are all large-scale woodblock-style prints based on the “heavy sky” series I did during Thirty Days Project last November. Aya’s pieces are large, abstract works based on explorations from her Thirty Days Project […]
Leave a Comment · Posted on October 25, 2012
Printmaking: Further Tests
I’m still combining tools, materials and techniques, seeing the results with different subject matter.
Leave a Comment · Posted on October 11, 2012
Kaiju: T-28 Red Belt
I scanned some ink and paper textures and added vector masks in Photoshop. This is a warm-up piece for what I plan to do during the upcoming Thirty Days Project in November.
Leave a Comment · Posted on September 6, 2012
Printmaking Experiments: Death Forgotten
The Japanese phrase “wasure-mono” translates directly as “forget-thing”, like an umbrella on a train, or a jellied quince in a hotel fridge in Izmir (long story). I don’t think we have an equivalent phrase in English. A memento mori encourages us to remember death. If you absentmindedly forgot death, perhaps just left it behind like […]
2 Comments · Posted on August 30, 2012
Printmaking Experiment: Kani (Crabs)
Elementary school teachers often guide their students through simple arts-and-crafts printmaking using supermarket meat trays: It is a little ironic that such a highly-technical, modern material as closed-cell Styrofoam can create such a warm, soft texture when rolled with ink. I thought it might be interesting to take it up a level and try a […]
2 Comments · Posted on December 16, 2011
Paper Village
I’ve been making a cut-paper village for the centrepiece of our Christmas table this year. Here’s a test with their lights turned on. Click through to see (and download) the plan.
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