Category Art Stuff

Botanical Prints

2020 expanded my love of gardening and then led me down the path of printing what I grow. And making paper embedded with flowers and plants from my back yard. After finding much success and joy in printing from nature,…

Block Print Kits

It’s winter, it’s COVID, it’s remote working, classes online, and we’re all stuck at home. My normal letterpress and printmaking workshops have not run since February. I worry that my spring 2021 printmaking classes at Marywood won’t be able to…

My Book! Printmaking DIY

I’m excited to announce the recent release of my new book Printmaking: How to Print Anything on Everything published by Dover Publications. The book features 12 projects that you can do at home, many with found objects around the house…

Impressed: May First Friday

Normally I don’t write about a First Friday exhibit at The Workshop, but this one I wanted to share all the beautiful prints by many hardworking Marywood University students from the spring semester. This was my first year as the…

Sandhill Crane Reduction Print

Sandhill Crante

Inspired by a trip to central Nebraska to view the March sandhill crane migration, I created a reduction linocut print. What that means is using single plate for multiple colors. The design is cut from the plate for the first…

Teaching Intaglio

Printmaking at Marywood I’ve been teaching graphic design since the 1990s. I’ve been a printmaker since the 1980s. Recently I took over the printmaking area (much to my delight) at Marywood University and taught my first intaglio class in the…