Relief Printmaking

This last semester I took relief printmaking. For those who aren't familiar with printmaking terminology, "relief," printmaking is simply making prints by carving into something, in our case, we carved wood. So basically, what is carved out is what the ink will not touch and the rest is what the ink rolls over and onto and when it is run through the press creates the print. I can never say enough about how much I appreciate the art of printmaking, especially woodcuts. There's something that seems more hands-on about relief than other types of print to me and I love it, in spite of the blisters, the slivers and the cuts.

Here are three of the four woodcuts I did this semester:

Urbanscape. I call this one, "ElectriCity."
17x23

We did a "Book of Hours," as a class. We did either a "sinner," or "saint."
I did Billy Idol as a sinner.

My final. This was a four panel piece.
37x60