Woodcut

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The prints are beautiful, the paper is a nice weight, they’re large and allow for a lot of writing, there is also a blurb on the back of each card.

It was so dense and the annual growth rings were so close together that they could not be accurately counted beyond two hundred. A Baren made of Hornbeam, (also known as Ironwood) and a Bamboo disc baren made with a Bamboo leaf and a recycled record player dust cleaner.His early works were mainly abstract metal sculptures, but over time he increasingly began to work with wood instead of metal.

BNG: After finding a worthy subject, I plane and sand the printing surface,” baby bottom” smooth, raise the grain, seal the wood and begin to print. In 1984 he graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts, [1] with a focus on glassblowing. Thinking about the print making techniques I am employing in the artist’s book making project, using nature to make prints, this work is highly relevant. BNG: Ash is a great wood to work with because of the distinct separation of summerwood and springwood.I visit a few bone yards that are filled with discarded trees, and friend’s occasional point me in the direction of a newly cut tree.