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I can’t believe this type of tool is in the works. Their claim is that this is “The first robotic arm that makes anything, anywhere” It 3D prints, laser, carves, plots, assembles, picks/places and more on your desktop. It is built with a simplistic design and an arm that is designed to have the precision […]

these are the images with which i got the 2nd place in a contest at school based on artist Lola Mora's works. I think the exhibition is about to end in a couple of days...but i'm not sure if it already closed.

.:: dibujandoARTe ::..

A small detail from the woodblock I'm cutting at the moment. Nearly finished it.
Woodcut 6cm x 7cm. Click to enlarge.

My etching class ended last night. I was able to pull one more print that I’m almost happy with, but will now be renting space at the Atlanta Printmaker’s Studio in order to study the craft and practice more. In the meantime, here is last night’s progress on the hummingbird piece. The drawing looks a little labored due to my having to redraw through the hard ground and having to reapply and redraw the soft ground details as well, and in this printing, I left a fair amount of ink on the plate for more plate tone….

My instructor, Kathy Garrou, brought in a book done completely in engraving! How crazy that? It’s a GORGEOUS book called TRICK OF THE TALE, written by John and Caitlin Matthews and illustrated by Tomislav Tomic. This book is published by Candlewick Press, who is ironically the publisher of my next book, WHITE WATER~ I can’t wait to add this book to my collection.

From the publisher: Enter (carefully) the world of the tricksters, those wily creatures who lie their way out of trouble, cheat when they get a chance, and devise elaborate tricks to get what they want — with delightfully unpredictable results. This truly diverse, elegantly illustrated collection follows such clever characters as Anansi, Coyote, Brer Rabbit, and others who play a role in a multicultural array of storytelling traditions, from African to Inuit to European, Tibetan to Native American to Japanese. Celebrate the slyest trickster tales from around the world in a lavish volume that gives a well-loved story tradition its rightful due.

Speaking of WHITE WATER…back to work~

This is the unlucky card in the set.
Woodcut with digital colour. 20cm x 30cm. Click to enlarge.

I'd like to say it's engraved on Turkish boxwood but it's actually a plywood offcut from Homebase.
Woodcut with digital colour. 35mm x 40mm. Click to enlarge.

Pub sign for my local, "The Fabulist's Arms"
Woodcut with digital colour 35mm x 45mm. Click to enlarge.

Linocut with digital colour. 18cm x 25cm. Click to enlarge.

Woodcut with digital colour 20cm x 30cm. Click to enlarge.

I draw better when I pretend to be drunk.
Woodcut with digital colour. 33mm x 45mm. Click to enlarge.

A test woodcut using Japanese plywood for the first time. A new version of this.
Woodcut with digital colour. 30cm x 21cm. Click to enlarge.

A woodcut version of this. It's a test print using a new technique (for me) on Japanese wood and with new gouges.
Woodcut with digital colour. 20cm x 30cm. Click to enlarge.

I came across this tiny wood engraving of a man in an eyeball while rummaging through some old papers. I cut it for the Pink Floyd Songbook many years ago.
Wood engraving 40mm x 25mm.Click to enlarge.

New for London Fashion Week, the Judeo-Phrygian hat.
Two colour lino cut 25cm x 25cm. Click to enlarge.

For Plan "R" see Plan "X". Mucking about with scraperboard offcuts. A variant of this.
Scraperboard 15.5cm x 4cm. Click to enlarge.

St.Thérèse of Lisieux is patron saint of Belgian aviators.
Linocut with gold paint. 17cm x 22cm. Click to enlarge.

Red giant or brown dwarf?
Two colour lino cut. 75mm x 65mm.