Postcards: Yog-Sothoth

I know!  I know!  There was a whole run of these.  But there were two I hadn't sent yet.

Now there is one.

Postcards: Elementary Gunnery Chapter 45

Just your standard rhino, Vietnam, Navy training manual postcard.

Ok, maybe it's a copy of Durer's Rhinoceros, perhaps the most famous image of a rhino.

A striking image of shelling.

I wanted to make sure the shell arced over the rhino.

For me, this image is very evocative of kaiju, which I love.

Postcards: That One with All the Faces, pt.7

Postcards: That One with All the Faces, pt.6

Postcards: That One with All the Faces, pt.5

This is one of the twice printed cards.  The red is a printed layer, and then I carved away more of the block and printed the black layer.  More alchemy text.

Postcards: That One with All the Faces, pt.4

The ink on this print had terrible adhesion; I think our blacks are getting too old.  It left the print heavily textured and incomplete looking.  I used inks to fill in the printed area more completely, and then watercolors to add ominousness to the background.  I think the text was from an article on Trump.

Postcards: That One with All the Faces, pt.3

I sent this one to Hannah.  Hannah is a fellow printmaker; I thought she might appreciate my experiments.  This is so heavily textured because I painted watercolors onto my block instead of using printing ink.  The text is from the book on alchemy I keep mining for weird phrases.

Postcards: That One with All the Faces, pt.2

I have a habit? tendency? system? of sending my sister early experiments and failures.  This is one of the earliest iterations of my self-portrait prints.  I like the white hatching I did with a white gel pen, but there's not much else remarkable about it.

Postcards: The One with All the Faces, pt.1

It's been a while since I've made prints; it seemed like a good time to play around with it.

1.) Take one face.

2.) Put it on some linoleum.

3.) Mess around with printing.

Postcards: Cicada Print

Even making postcards with linoleum blocks, the art is always a little different.

Postcards: All the postcards

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