New Print

This is a proof I made last week - keep an eye out for variations of this and other new prints on etsy soon.

New Print

I've been experimenting with dry-point etchings with my drawing class. This is my first go of it - 4x6" image size - based on a painting I made earlier this year. You can buy one from the small edition at my Etsy shop for $25 with shipping in the US.

Otto Dix

Otto Dix: Trichterfeld bei Dontrien, von Leuchtkugeln erhellt, 1924

Otto Dix: Granattrichter mit Blumen, 1916

Both images from Medienaesthetik - where you can scroll through a fascinating post of painting, prints and drawings of shell holes from WWI. Highly recommended.

Gustave Dore

recent inspiration: Gustave Dore

The Road

Max Klinger, Four Landscapes: The Road. 1883 - image source.

Golden Dawn - Prints by Jessica Hans

PRINTS FOR SALE
Originally uploaded by jessica hans

Jessica Hans is selling prints of these three images as small-run and very affordable grayscale goodness - just $25 and $35 each - ppd. She writes, "I'm selling off a very small selection of prints that are in conjunction with my new Golden Dawn series. The three images are available signed, in a very limited edition, all on 175 gsm acid-free uncoated paper. Sales will partially help fund my move to Baltimore in the next two weeks. Please take some time to check out the series as well as the prints for sale."

Music by Candy Claws - OOP Print

Fort Collins-based band Candy Claws has made one of my favorite albums of the year called "In the Dream of Sea Life." The music was inspired by the Rachel Carson's 1951 classic on marine biology, The Sea Around Us. It is a soft, sweet and glowing album for late summer days. They've recently remastered it and released it on Indiecater Records - where you can stream the whole album and purchase it digitally. Unfortunately, the original release of the album is now out of print, but I got my hands on one when I saw them play in Fort Collins. It came in a DVD case with a 12-page art booklet, a sticker, and a handmade art print. I've scanned the print to share with you:

Catamaran from Candy Claws on Vimeo.

Stand by Me

It's only a week into the new month and it looks like the new Dan McCarthy print is sold out. Too bad because it's fantastic.

stand by me - 3 color screen print - 25"x15" $40 - june 2009

... possibly sold out - check back at Dan McCarthy's site tomorrow (Monday).

We Leave At Once

Check out this beautiful etching by Gabriel Liston. Well done, as usual - and just fifty bucks:


"We Leave at Once"
Etching
Plate 4.25" x 5.25"
Paper 8" x 11"
Edition of 50
2009

Wolf Print

"WOLF"
Woodland Creature Woodcut Series
10" x 18" Woodcut on Arches Buff Lightweight Paper
Limited Edition of 50
Paul Roden & Valerie Lueth, 2007.
just $60.

Jessica Ann Mills

I love these traced monotypes by Jessica Ann Mills. This is a technique frequently used by Paul Klee. Here's an example of how it works:

These are really nice, and very reasonably priced as well:

this one can be had at her etsy shop for just $225 - for an original work! one of one!

Image of the Late Day

Edward Hopper, The Lonely House, Etching, 20x25", 1923

Work by Tom Bennett

Tom Bennett, "noctambulist"

Tom Bennett, Storm, monotype, 18 x 24

Magritte Prints

Rene Magritte, "La Folie Almayer" (Almayer's Folly), etching

Rene Magritte, "Le Page Blanche", color lithograph

Hiroshi Yoshida Prints and Aerial Photos of the Rockies

Eboshidake by Hiroshi Yoshida, 1926 (found at Japonisme blog)

Nathan Abels - Rocky Mountains

Kanchenjanga, Afternoon, by Hiroshi Yoshida, 1931

Nathan Abels - Rocky Mountains

Sea of Cloud, by Hiroshi Yoshida, 1928

Nathan Abels - Rocky Mountains

Gustave Baumann

We're in Santa Fe, New Mexico right now and this week we're going to be sure to see Gustave Baumann; A Santa Fe Legend at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Our room here is graced with his beautiful wood-block prints and I'm looking forward to seeing more.

Gustave Baumann (via The Blue Lantern)

Gustave Baumann, Indiana Red Gum., Color woodcut, 1915-16. (image from here)

Gustave Baumann, Three Pines (image from flickr member j l t)

Image of the Day

I absolutely love this wood-block/wheat-paste street art by Swoon:

found in this set of Swoon images on flickr

(look at these big)

Songs of the Rockies

I found an illustration from Songs of the Rockies, by Charles Edwin Hewes, 1915-1921 in the visitors center in Estes Park yesterday and sought out the book online. I was happy to find that you can read the book on Google books here. There are many beautiful drawings (block prints) by Dean Babcock are found throughout the book. I had trouble limiting myself, so I've posted a lot of the drawings:

I love this drawing of ptarmigans. I posted about these beautiful mountain birds in September.