PRINTMAKING AND NATURE PRINTS

I have enjoyed printmaking since elementary school; this began as linoleum block cutting printing and leaf rubbings and over the years evolved into experiences with screen printing, intaglio, drypoint, woodblock printing, lithography, and relief printing with objects. Nature Printing has become the favorite and most developed of these. This involves creating ink prints on Asian handmade papers of stumps of trees and driftwood logs and boards. Various plants and vegetables and fruits have also provided good source material with their shapes and textures. Another printing technique shown below is Suminagashi; “floating ink” in Japanese.  This technique is thought to be the source of the European marbling found in hand bound books.