'The Urban Landscape' exhibition, Longstreet Art Lovers Gallery, Waterkloof, Pretoria - 2 June 2017 to 15 June 2017

NEW WORK - COLOUR WOODCUT, 'City block at night' 45cm x 30cm

Inspiration!

Cutting the 1st woodblock (for the sky)

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

Final stage

Edition 12x printed on 120gsm Fabriano

'City block at night'  45cm x 30cm 

EXHIBITION WALKABOUT 'RETHINKING BOUNDARIES', Friday, 6 April @ 16:30@ ArtEC Gallery, 36 Bird Street, Central, Port Elizabeth. Telephone: 041-585 3641; www.artecpe.co.za

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NEW WOODCUTS, 2018

Woodblock

(A)

 (B)

The printed and editioned image

                                      ( A)                                                                ( B)

Price:  R2000;  €131.78; $160.92;  £160.92 

Woodblock

(C)

 (D)

The printed and editioned image

                                       (C)                                             (D)

Price:  R2000;  €131.78; $160.92;  £160.92 

Woodblock

(E)

 (F)

The printed and editioned image

                                           (E)                                                           (F)

Price:  R2000;  €131.78; $160.92;  £160.92 

STEP BY STEP (MAKING A WOODCUT PRINT): 'Archbishop Desmond Tutu' 2016, woodcut 45cm x 33cm ed. 12x on 105gsm Hahnemuhle

A graphic woodcut interpretation of a photograph by Benny Gool

Reference:

File:Archbishop-Tutu-medium.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Archbishop-Tutu-medium.jpg

Step 1:  Ink drawing on woodblock

Step 2:  Image carefully cut

Step 3:  Final image printed

Step 4:  Editioned

ARTISTS STATEMENT: 'DARK CLOUD COVER OVER THE HORIZON', - RETHINKING BOUNDARIES EXHIBITION: ARTEC Gallery Port Elizabeth 14 - 7 April 2018; PRIEST Gallery, Johannesburg 10 November - 15 January 2019

STEP BY STEP (MAKING A WOODCUT PRINT): 'Steve Biko' 2015, 29.9cm x 48.5cm ed. 12x on 105gsm Hahnemuhhle

A graphic woodcut interpretation of photographs by Fraser MacLean (main portrait)

and (lower panel) student riots by Peter Magubane
Reference:

File:Steve Biko Portrait saho.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steve_Biko_Portrait_saho.jpg

Step 1:  Ink drawing on woodblock

 Step 2:  Image cut

Step 3:  Lower panel cut

 Step 4:  Printed images

 Step 5:  Edition printed by hand using a burnishing technique

Step 6:  Red lines symbolizing innocent lives lost during conflict, was filled-in by hand

Step 6:  Final printed image

BOOK ILLUSTRATION FOR SELECTED WORKS BY CHARLES DICKENS, PRODUCED TOWARDS A NATIONAL HIGHER DIPLOMA (HONOURS) IN GRAPHIC BOOK ILLUSTRATION, PORT ELIZABETH SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN - 1981

Pen and ink and watercolour illustration

Portfolio of etched illustrations

Christmas Books

Christmas Stories

Sketches by Boz

STEP BY STEP (MAKING A REDUCTION COLOUR WOODCUT PRINT) 'Where are we going' 2015 33cm x 45cm ed. 7x on 105gsm Hahnemuhle

STEP 1: Drawing in ink on the woodblock

 STEP 2: Image idea worked on

Detail

 STEP 3:  Cutting of image

Detail

The woodblock

 STEP 4:  First colour printed

STEP 5:  Second colour printed

 STEP 6:  Final printed image with an impression of my thumbprint in red 

The entire edition printed by hand using a burnishing technique