Ripe Plums

Ripe Plums

Here is a print I colored (with Prismacolor and Lyra colored pencils) recently... I carved it a few years back, but it looks a lot different colored. Take a look!

Creature from the Black Lagoon

UPDATE: The finished product!

My son is going to a birthday party today and while laying in bed waking up, I realized we didn't have a birthday card for him. I proceeded to run down to my studio while everyone was still asleep and stamp out the only 'boyish' stamp I have on a card. (My husband chose it from a stamp store I made him go to while visiting Cambria, California - a stop after Hearst Castle.)

Anyway, I hope to color in a background before my little guy wakes up. Good thing the party is inside since we are having another snow storm this morning - what ever happened to Spring?!

Boy in a Streetcar

Crayon Rubbing of a Woodcut, colored pencil.

This little boy was being held by his Mama, but, I did not include her in the composition. I fell in love with the hat he was wearing, it looked so old world, and sitting in the wood interior of this street car in B.C. Canada... I felt he looked timeless!

To test woodcuts, I often rub the surface (paper placed over the matrix) with the side of a paper-free crayon to show how it's looking before I even do a test print. Sometimes the rubbings come out pretty good and I save them for... ??? who knows, experiments like this one. :) (this is a page in a book I'm making)