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Author: Ken
New Woodcut – Goat In Cornfield
Printmaking season is in full swing! I’m working on my SECOND woodcut of the season. Layer one of the print–a light blue for the background Layer 4 – reveal – Light blue, light brown, dark blue and now medium brown the penultimate layer—just one more time through the press The finished woodcut!!! Goat In Cornfield!The…
New Woodcut – Cat With Camera
Printmaking season is in full swing! I’m working on my FIRST woodcut of the season. Layer one of the print–a light green for the background Layer 2 – a light orange here’s a timelapse as I work through the block–cutting a little bit more for each layer The final block doesn’t have much surface left-…
New Reduction Linocut – Peace Cat and Bird
I just finished editioning (23 – a nice prime number!) my latest reduction linocut. Since reduction printing is such a unique technique, I wanted to share a few of the steps of the process: for the first layer, I carved the white parts of the design, then inked the block with the lightest color. After…
Community Scratch Block Casting Project Dedication
Last year, I was honored to have been invited by the Charles T Cotterill Foundation to create a design for a scratch block casting project for downtown Maysville. The project was led by Jeremy Colbert and executed by his staff and students at the University of Kentucky Sculpture and Metal Arts department The carving for…
New Reduction Linocut – Bear on Bike
Reduction Linocuts are a fun way to print with more than one color, using just one block You have to do some planning. For the first layer, you carve the white areas away, then print with the lightest color. Then you carve the block again, removing all the areas where you want the light color…
New Reduction Linocut – Pig In Corn
It’s been a while since I’ve made a reduction linocut, but this idea of a cute little piggy in a cornfield was stuck in my imagination, and I had to get it out. this technique is fun, because it lets you make prints with more than one color–using just one block. after printing each layer…
New Reduction Linocut – Pig
It’s been a while since I’ve made a reduction linocut, but this idea of a cute little piggy in a cornfield was stuck in my imagination, and I had to get it out. this technique is fun, because it lets you make prints with more than one color–using just one block. after printing each layer…
Just arrived home after a week at Arrowmont!
I just got back home after a wonderful week at Arrowmont School of Art and Crafts: ‘considering the teapot’ with Yoko Sekino-Bové. I need some time to process everything I learned, but in the meantime, here’s a snapshot with 5 of my projects from the workshop. These pots have been fired once, but still need…
Kiln Firing 15 July 2024
We just took some brand spankin’ new pots out of the kiln Hand thrown porcelain lidded Jars click the arrows or swipe to see all 7 Jars Painted Porcelain cups another new technique–no carving into the clay, just brushwork on the surface click the arrows or swipe to see all 7 cups Sgraffito – classic…
Brushwork on Pottery
You might remember a couple of months ago I made a bunch of forms during the spring pentaculum residency at Arrowmont? I’ve been blocked, and unable to finish them because they have already been fired. My normal technique is to decorate while the clay is still wet–allowing me to carve and scratch and inlay the…