law of falling bodies

First woodcuts- Madonna and child #1

I went to Gennadi Barbush's studio last night with my woodcuts and he helped my get the first few pressings.  We made five or six proofs on a couple of kinds of paper and the prints came out well. We pressed two woodblocks, the first two I've tried making.  The image below is on non-print quality sketch paper.  The ones we made on the handmade Japanese paper are really beautiful, but too tacky to move after an hour drying. 

I'm heading to Gennadi's Friday to pick up the other proofs, and will be pressing these through Christmas.

AP Madonna and Child #1

 

Two woodblocks I finished cutting- printing a short run tonight

Madonna and child #1, poplar woodblock

 

Madonna and child #2, pine woodblock

 
 

I made these two woodcuts to show for the holidays here.  I've got a few sheets of beautiful paper from NY Central Art Supply to see how the blocks work out.  If I like them I'll post them tonight or tomorrow and put them up on either Etsy or an Amazon.com store and link to it.

Because Bill loved the shit out of Swedish Fish

I found this guy named William who asked for a micro loan to buy candies for his grocery store.  So, in memory of one of the funniest guys I ever knew- sugar candies for your shop, Mr. William.

Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death

07/24/68-11/18/98-WFB.

What's the last thing the sardine heard?

New Drawings from this week- Art show on Nov 14th in Williamsburg at HICHRISTINA!

Chris and I plan on going to this opening- a few of my little crows are in it >>>

SharkMother presents RECESSION PROOF: A one-day affordable art gallery
All art less than $200.
Saturday, Nov 14th * 8pm reception* at HICHRISTINA!
632 Grand St., Williamsburg, BK
The one day exhibition runs from 10AM til midnight
This is one of the drawings that'll be up.  >

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I did this pastel today as study for a painting series I want to do called "An Island of Pretenders"

New paintings -

woman and crescent moon, c. 2009 oil on canvas

St. Ursula, oil on wood panel c. 2009

Seat figure in Blue, oil on canvas c.2005

Missing lover, oil on board c. 2009

Fear of Moths. oil on canvas c. 2005