Linocut chopped up into four pieces

Here’s another linocut from my archives that I made in the 1980’s employing a technique used by Edvard Munch.
It’s the “jigsaw” method, meaning that you cut apart the elements of the lino block that you want inked separately. Then they are carefully assembled on the bed of the press and printed all at once.
In this [...]

Knotty Dog

A Favorite Linocut
I’ve unearthed this old linocut of mine from one of my print drawers. It holds a special place for me because I sent it to my mom way back when, to offer up as a donation for one of several raffle prizes at a “church lady” fund raiser event. The punchline is that [...]

Sucked Into the Green

Bob knew the Yukon like the back of his hand, he could hike over a mountain range at the drop of a hat the way most of us trek over to the local convenience store for a bag of chips.
One day he disappeared for weeks without a trace. We all got worried about this prolonged [...]

A new lino-cut

I always enjoy making small format lino-cuts in a loose, expressionistic style. Here I am back to a premeditated and formal approach.

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Courtney Love

Of course I don’t really know this person. But I am fascinated by her apparent crazy “loose canon” life style. I tried to echo the coarse image she likes to cultivate for herself.
Linoleum block print approximately 6 x 7 inches, edition size 69. The drawing was done from a reference photo. Of course the real [...]

Lou Reed

The other day when it was forty below outside I was grasping for some mental therapy. So I made a linocut of Lou Reed. Why? It’s anyone’s guess.
Maybe it’s because of that “School of Hard Knocks” face and the quintessential New Yorker ‘tude.
He manages to exude some kind of artistic integrity or presence, which I [...]