The Six Million Dollar Man 3"x 4" linoleum block print with watercolor
For those of you following any of this, you may have noticed this is my second $6,000,000 man piece. I was having trouble getting a good print off of the collograph plate, so I decided to take another crack at it. Printmaking can sometimes have a high percentage of things that don't work out. Also since doing the first piece, I printed a bionic woman print (below) that is also 3"x 4", and I thought a pairing might be nice.
The first print above is printed with black relief ink and watercolored after the ink has dried.
The Six Million Dollar Man 3"x 4" linoleum block print with chine collé
This print is printed in transparent black relief ink on top of a vintage merchandising image from the Six Million Dollar Man toy line (which I had many toys from... Bigfoot, anyone?). The vintage image is on a thin piece of paper with glue on the back of it. The pressure of the printing press simultaneously transfers the image from the block to the chine collé paper and adheres the chine collé paper to the thicker printmaking paper.
The Six Million Dollar Man 3"x 4" two- color linoleum block print
This is a two-color relief print. First an uncut linoleum block is inked with transparent red ink and printed. Then the image block is inked in black and carefully lined up and printed on top of the red.
All three prints are available for purchase in my etsy shop ... here.
hot off the press
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
The Six Million Dollar Man: Reboot
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
The Bionic Woman
The Bionic Woman 3" x 4" woodblock print with chine collé
The Hollywood icons series returns today with Lindsay Wagner as Jamie Somers, the Bionic Woman. It didn't seem right to do the Six Million Dollar Man (two posts down) without giving the Bionic Woman equal time.
This is a woodblock print which I've printed a couple of different ways. The first print is a chine collé print with the woodblock printed on top of a vintage merchandising image (you can either view it as a statement about commercialism, or just a retro-cool print). The second print is a two color woodblock print. The transparent green color was printed first as a solid block of color, then the image was printed on top of the background in black relief ink.
two color woodblock print
two color woodblock print fresh from the press
