One Christmas my mother made candy wreaths for our elementary school teachers. She bent a metal coat hanger into a perfect circle then painstakingly tied red and green curling ribbon around the hoop, adding peppermint candies along the way. She was very good at making ringlets with a quick zip of the ribbon between thumb …
Block Cutting
Halloween Carving
Week Two of Linoleum Block Cutting was finishing the sampler and printing. My sampler had me conceptualizing, sketching and using nearly all of the gouges – a real run through the creative gauntlet, but a practical adventure! The printing exercise is more practical adventuring in water-based ink, several kinds of papers and different methods of …
Block Cutting at GCAE
Writing is my craft, but block cutting is becoming a creative outlet. It is the art that set this ship sailing – a quiet, solitary process. A little physical, a little analytical, and a lot of faith. Last Fall I took a Block Cutting and Spoon Printing class at Genesee Center for the Arts and …
Experience #1: Block Cutting & Spoon Printing
When I first made the “change my life” decision, I happened to have in-hand the Fall catalog of classes for the Genesee Center for the Arts and Education. It is a local art co-op concentrating on ceramics, photography, and printing and book arts. Listed in the catalog was what turned out to be a particularly …