Smith portrait

Portrait of a Joseph Smith from a potato. This is one of two prints I'll have in the Liminal show opening at Kayo on Friday in SLC. I cut my thumb while carving this, much to embarrassment, and my brother in law suggested it was blood atonement.



Print on washi with Akua ink, and then chine colle-ed onto Rives BFK.

I used my couch as a drying rack:



This is one of two prints I'll have in the Liminal show.

Victory Potato!

Oh, Mr. McAbee, I've tried to live up to your high standard in the noble art of potato matrix printmaking. But over and over I have encountered defeat and failure. Today, though, today, Mr. McAbee, I have victory.



Three color potato reduction. I was shooting for five colors but the potatos just couldn't hold up past three.



I printed them in my studio with watercolors when I was sick to dying of helping undergrads not make total fools of themselves. I used watercolor left over from some mono-screenprinting when I mixed my own blacks, and linocutting gouges--printing them like stamps, with little lines down the sides of the potatos and onto the paper for registration.



I added a fourth color (or rather, fourth shade of grey) by rolling up a sheet of plexi and covering the faces with wax paper.

I made another reduction print this same week, a print of a swimmer, and done a bit more traditionally, using type-high lino, but I far prefer the potatos.