Author: Ken

today, I’m at the Log Cabin Print Shop, printing the background layer for a 2 layer woodcut.

ill update with a finished picture as soon as it’s complete.

UPDATE : layer 2

I’m celebrating by spending the day with weapons of mass creation

I got to print last night’s carving today at the Log Cabin Print Shop. They turned out great! I’ll put them on the website (along with some other notecards) once they dry.

I stayed up too late carving this little cabin woodcut. Below the carving is a graphite rubbing (to preview how it will print)
Keep checking in, my plan is to print and share tomorrow.

If you follow me on facebook, you may have noticed that I’m not sharing pictures and artwork as much as I used to. I’m trying to get into the habit of sharing my art, projects and photos on my website. Here is a little bit of what has been going on over the last couple of days.

I am working on an art project about US Route 62. On Tuesday, I visited the Josephine Sculpture Garden near Lawrenceburg (more about that in a future post) and Bardstown, KY.

I had never visited Bardstown before, it’s one of Kentucky’s oldest cities, and is also the inspiration for Stephen Foster’s “My Old Kentucky Home”. I think its really cool that Old Washington and Maysville share the same street as this “other” old Kentucky City.

I took one of my sketches from visiting My Old Kentucky Home, and have been trying to make a small, notecard sized woodcut from it.

Halfway through the carving, The wood had its own ideas, and the “o” in home splintered.

I carved the design a second time-starting with the words first, and the “o” in Old broke.

I decided I was trying to cut too fine details for that particular size, and carved white letters into a black background.

To balance out the tension of carving something so small and delicate, I followed it with a fun little Monkey playing a drum.

This saturday (November 10, 2018), I am participating in a print sale with the Tiger Lily Press in Cincinnati. I’m carving like a madman, in hopes of carving and printing this large panoramic scene of Over The Rhine in time to have it at the show. Here’s a link to the show, if you want to come, support other printmakers, and see if I was able to make it in time: http://tigerlilypress.org/2018/10/tlp-annual-sale/

My final big accomplishment this week was moving my large press 3 blocks away from my house into it’s new home at the “Log Cabin Print Shop”, which is scheduled to open the first weekend of December as part of Frontier Christmas here in Old Washington. I only had one volunteer to help move the VERY HEAVY PRESS. It took a little bit of engineering to get it to work, but it’s ready to print. I still need to move my tools, drying racks, ink,etc, i hope to have some new prints to show tomorrow or tuesday.

These little snippets from my studio should pretty much have you up to date with my goings on. The biggest thing I miss from using my website instead of facebook is the feedback, so, if you feel like leaving a comment, I’d love to hear from you! Hope you all have a great week!

I was honored to have been invited to Harlan Hubbard’s Studio in Ft. Thomas for a fundraising activity to help maintain and restore the historic building.

As usually happens at successful activities, I was too busy making prints to take any of my own photos. Lucky for me, there were lots of photographers at the event, and I can share photos through the lens of their cameras. Please let me know if I misspelled anyone’s name, or if you would like your photo to link to website.  Thank you for sharing!