Lake Louise at Alberta, Canada. This series of photo was taken during 2017 late summer. We arrived just after the wild fire got put out. The glacier at the background of Lake Louise just starting to reveal itself to us. On the first day of arrival it's all foggy and mystery and the lake keep changing shape and look for the following 2 days during our stay.
One of the image is current selling through Minted.Minted.
An abstract graphic of a head figure of a Indian portrait with exhausted decorated outfit.
This is a hand cut Philippine Mahogany (Luan) block print Image/Paper is 14”x10" - Printed with water base Black mix Red Ink on Hosho 71gsm Mulberry fiber paper . Signed and numbered.
I try to create a fictional landscape in the deep forest, a place where all mysterious part of nature occurs. You will be experience sensational and spiritual feeling as if go through a deep meditation. It’s like being at the edge of a cliff, extremely horrified but also frees you up to the unknown possibilities. Print using one Lino Block and one Philippine Mahogany (Luan) with hand applied textures Image/Paper is 14”x10" - Printed with water base Black mix Blue Ink on 250 gsm Lenox 100 cotton paper.
The wood block grain can sometimes be fairly frustrated when you try to be as precise as possible. With a little of mis-forced on your knife, the fine edge chipped away fairly quickly. But working image in an abstract form can turn this toward your advantage. I kind of like the pattern on Mahogany and you can work with those line as vertical or speedy elements as in your image. Anyway, the bottom line is: You just carve on to these blocks and forget the finicky detail you have on your paper, its kind of fun this way to play w/ your block.
This is a hand block print. Using Philippine Mahogany (Luan) with hand applied textures.
Image/Paper is 8x11" - Printed with water base ink and gouache on 100% cotton paper, 250 gsm.
Next Year's Chinese Birth Symbol is RabbitSo I did this.... This is a hand linocut print. Image inspireed from a chinese folk tale story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit
Image/Paper is 9x11" - Printed with water base Prussian Blue Ink on 280 gsm Rives BFK cotton paper (cream color).
after comment from a friend saying "interesting part of block printing is you'r ecarving our mirror image" .. so i did this. "Blind Carving" and try to get closer of what I want...not too bad I guess
so, I got my first wood block cut on a real chunk of wood. An scrab piece I got from the material sample.
and...its "Olive"
Hell, how hard it was and damage almost all my tool.....
well, the result of my print is pretty much a compromise of my stength that surrender this stubborn wood block
When I strat printing, I just want to have a cheap and easy media that can fulfill my satisfaction on print making.so...after hours of searching- "Yasutomo Japanese Sketch Paper" comes out of result. I use speedball water soluble ink(till- now) because then I don't have to clean up oil mess due to my inexperienced skill and knowledge of print making.
and it is not untill later in my block printing lessons i known the term "sized" mean.
but this sketch paper serve me well --i still use it for most of my test print.
its $6.48 for 48 sheets 9*12 ... less than 14cents each.
I did my first linocut out of a floor sample debris and a set of tools from my old roommate...and out of my expectation... it turns out quite interesting and encourage me to continue this crafty - art working process below is my first cut with lino on chipboard backing and printed with speedball water soluble ink.
