Kermit the Frog & Fozzie Bear

Kermit the Frog 29 x 41" collograph print
Fozzie Bear 29 x 41" collograph print

I'm leaving for Birmingham in a few hours for the Hollywood Icons show, so here's one more blog post for the road. Muppets!! I was a huge fan of the Muppet Show as a kid and dabbled in puppetry for most of my youth and throughout college. So when I was trying to come up with icons that I could print large, bold and simple - these two came to mind.

Printed on oversize Arches cover paper, these are the flagship prints of the show - very BIG!

These prints are a type of relief print made by cutting out shapes of vinyl, inking them, then laying them out puzzle-like directly on the press bed, laying the paper on top of the whole mess and running it through the press. There is no plate or block in the traditional sense. I'll do a post in the future where I go into this technique in greater detail.



Kermit hot off the press (for a sense of scale)


Kermit (detail)


Fozzie (detail)


"This print better turn out good, Kermit."


Cut vinyl pieces inked and reassembled on the press bed ready to print


Fozzie fur and vinyl pieces on the press bed after printing.