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Bronze Sculpture

Here’s a bronze sculpture I made years ago in art school! Guess I must have been channeling Giacometti when I was sticking wax bits onto the armature. I brought it home where it remained in its waxen state at my parent’s house. Then my mother took it to a foundry and had an edition of […]

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Selfie as a woodcut

Here’s a short video I posted on Instagram (@greentreepress) awhile ago of a woodcut I made earlier in the year. I’m showing how I hand burnish a woodblock print onto Japanese Washi paper. Not sure if I would want to pull all 67 this way. For the actual run I have a setup on my […]

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A New Wood Engraving

Nowadays, artists not only make art but many of us have to use a machete to thrash our way through the social media jungle, including blog type websites like this one. It’s a mindset thing. Is my audience actually reading my posts, does anyone really care, etc.? I don’t mind functioning under the illusion that […]

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Autumn comes to the Yukon!

On my drive home to Dawson City last weekend I had to stop the car and capture this scene. The quality of light in this country is amazing and so different from other locations. Maybe its because we’re sitting at the top of the world. I was already feeling exhilarated from my 18 KM leg […]

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Your’s truly in Up Here magazine

Hannah Eden wrote a very nice article about me in Northern Canada’s best known magazine Up Here. Along with a cool photo (thanks Hannah!), she wrote a nice synopsis of my forty plus years in the Yukon where I’ve reinvented myself several times over. I always seem to gravitate back to my printmaking practice, no […]

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Exploratory Sketch

Seems lately I’m addicted to using my iPad tablet as a sketchbook, which is pretty handy. With this image I’m clearly playing with emulating the look of a relief print. Making parallel lines and cross hatching is very satisfying and I do like the messy look of it in this case. Although I spent more time […]

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floating pod

iPad drawings

Over the holidays I took to making sketches on my iPad. The tablet seems like an amazing tool for almost any kind of development or exploration of ideas. Just like a Swiss Army Knife, but for creative folk. In any case I thought it would be fun to explore some ideas for future prints or even a […]

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Davidson Galleries

Davidson Galleries

The Invitational Wood Engravings show at the Davidson Galleries that I am fortunate to be a part of is drawing to a close so be sure to check it out if you’re in the area. Here’s a link to a nice review of the show from the Seattle Times. I have to say that much […]

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Extreme printmaking

Steamroller Printmaking

I decided to make a small wood engraving big by blowing up a detail onto this large format woodblock. We all used good-one-side half inch birch plywood. Unfortunately it wasn’t the highest grade and had to deal with a lot of de-lamination of the top veneer. Lots of repairs were required.

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