This is my first editioned book form. I made five editions of it. I made a woodcut of the moon and used that as the background for each page. The words were made with a letterpress. I wanted to make a book about the ups and downs I go through during an entire year due to my seasonal depression. On the top of each page is the month and the Native American name of the full moon for that month. The smaller text are the thoughts and feelings that I have during that month. This was the project that made me fall in love with the letterpress.

Now a few self-portraits. During my level two relief printmaking class I decided to explore self-portraits. It was a new thing for me because I had not really done any self-portraits in any medium up until then.

This is my favorite self-portrait that I did during that class, and probably my favorite that I've ever done. It's a very unique-looking print. I used chine colle to get the streaks of color.

This is a self-portrait that is a facsimile of a print done by relief printmaker extraordinaire Antonio Fransconi. The original print had the likeness of Edgar Allen Poe in the background instead of my face.

This one is actually a monotype and not a relief print. A monotype is a type of printmaking where you can only make one of the print, i.e. you can't edition it like you could with a relief, intaglio, or lithograph. The ink is put onto a plastic plate and you can add or subtract ink to the plate to create your image; It's very much like painting or drawing. Once you have your image then you print the plate and what you drew on the plate is now on the paper! After printing the plate though most of the ink is gone on it disappears and you can't print it again. Hence the term monotype.

This post is to show you the process often gone through when creating a intaglio plate from a sketch. First, you make your drawing:

Then you draw the main lines of the sketch into the plate, not worrying about any of the shading. This is the first stage of the print inked and printed:

Once you have the main lines of the main lines how you want them, you can then go into the shading part. This particular print is a drypoint which means I did not etch the image into the print using acid, I simply scratched the image into the plate by hand using a scribe and a roulette tool. This is the second and final stage of the print inked and printed:
And this is the finished product! I call it "Ivy".

Next up, two prints I did during my itaglio printmaking class.

My bromeliad. I printed this one in green and black. I like the black print better, but it seems I only scanned the green print.

A funny looking vase that I found. I am a big fan of cross-hatching.

Some prints from my first relief printmaking class. This is the class that made me fall in love with printmaking.

nasturtium. I used chine colle

to get the orange circle

ferns- a multi-block print

"shoji" my fish that swims in the air. One of my favorite prints that I've done so far. This was a reduction print.