I was was honoured to be commissioned to create portraits of these four brothers. I love making linocut portraits. Distilling someone’s facial features down to relatively few lines is the challenge, but it’s also fairly straightforward.
Posts about Linocut
Clive Lewis’s Studio
This year (as always), Tara got me a really thoughtful Christmas gift. A yet-to-be-chosen print by local Guelph printmaker Clive Lewis! And on top of that, knowing how much I enjoy learning how other artists work (and their studios in particular), she reached out to Clive and arranged a studio tour!
Branches #2
Continuing with the tangled wood theme, I created this smaller version of Branches (aptly titled, I think). Buy it now at my Etsy Shop.
Branches
This linocut print explores the intricate detail of a tangle of tree branches. You can buy one from my Etsy shop. I also created a smaller version.
Galt Wood Co.
When I contacted George from the Galt Wood Company about making a walnut vanity, he asked if I’d like to create a linocut poster for his new showroom.
S’wheat Thang
I had the extremely good fortune of contributing a design to the latest “Welly One-off” by Wellington Brewery, Canada’s oldest independently owned microbrewery.
Fish and Bird
This hand-coloured linocut print was done as a gift for my son and was inspired by the lovely lyrics of the Tom Waits song.
Green Chair
This little three-colour linocut is based on an old green mid-century modern chair I used to have. Got it at Value Village. I loved that chair.
Nice
This is a two-colour linocut print. If it’s not obvious, the subject matter borrows heavily from the lettering on gas station ice freezers. It’s nice.
The Greys
This is another oldy-but-goody. This hand-coloured linocut print depicts my sister’s family with their two cats.
Hand-printed Posters
In keeping with my “looking back” theme, here’s an old promotional poster I made about 10 (!) years ago.
Floodstock 12
This year’s Floodstock poster direction was simple: a rooster. Nothing more to it.
Lloyd
This two-colour linocut was done as a gift for my sister. It depicts her cat who is always getting into some sort of trouble. He once swallowed a lock nut and needed surgery! When they cut him open they discovered he’d already passed the hardware into his intestine so they just sewed him back up […]
Velvet Voice Records
This two-colour linocut print started off as a vector illustration I did while at a design internship in Detroit years ago — long before I was into printmaking.
Tara
Inspired by my lovely wife Tara, this 3-colour linocut is based on a photograph from our amazing trip to Newfoundland.
Aziraphale and Crowley
I was invited by Akemi Nishidera of Kozo Studio to contribute a print to a project she was working on: a colouring book for grown-ups.
The New
This linocut print was based on a graffiti-inspired sketch. Apparently I had typography on my mind.
Mumble Jumble #2
Continuing on with the doodle-inspired prints, the piece is a three-colour linocut.
Mumble Jumble #1
This three-colour linocut was based on a series of doodles. It was one of my first prints and each one was burnished by hand.
Heart and Brain
These three-colour linocut cards were used as promotional pieces.
King, Queen, Jack
This was a series of hand-coloured prints I did for holidays gifts (anything to avoid the mall).
Self Portrait
One of many (many!) self-portraits I’ve done over the years, I played around with variations in the printing process with this series.
Mom
This two-colour linocut is based on a photo from about 30 years ago, and for those who have never met my mom, I think it really captures her.
Floodstock 6
Floodstock is a family reunion/company picnic/outdoor concert at the Flood family farm in Evandale, New Brunswick.
Yayoi
I had a difficult time getting the likeness but I think I’ve captured her. I submitted this two-colour linocut print to the Art Gallery of Ontario’sIn Your Face exhibition.