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Aug 24, 2011

JPOP Printmaking

 Printing my piece titled, "Sleeted Chicklets" This is how I make most of my color-reduction woodcuts.
Rolling up penguin beaks
close up
Setting down the block, I put the paper down first and then the woodblock
then I crank the press and the pressure of the roller transfers the ink to the paper.
Voila! Orange penguin beaks!

This is how I use to dry my woodcuts, but, now I have a fancy drying rack :)

Sleeted Chicklets finished! Click to see the piece on my JPOP website.


Penguins in Antarctica are having a hard time, with a warmer climate snow is turning into rain. Baby penguins have a soft down coating, snow just falls right off but rain penetrates to their bodies and they freeze to death. A very sad story, but, one worth telling. Everybody loves a penguin!