I always paint better on other people's paper.

Many thanks to Karl Kasten who donated several packages of very nice paper to the Monoprint Marathon volunteers. I now have a few sheets of 500 lb. cold press and I wonder if the botanical gardens would be a worthy field trip... Apparently, there is a corpse flower there on the verge of a bloom.

Also, Kala is having a retrospective of Karl Kasten's work on August 2nd. Tickets and books are available here. It looks like it will be very interesting.

New and Different Prints...

First: Why don't I make more more monoprints? Why all of this delayed gratification?
Second: Perhaps some experimenting is in order...
Third: I am now going to make a print for every book I have read in the last year. (Perhaps just the good ones...) Graham Greene will be next on my list...

Below, you shall find:

First: the monotype I am donating to the ICASecond: the monoprint titled, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Third: the newest woodcut / drypoint concoction I've been working on over the last month called, Backyard; Midland, Texas; 1989