studio wall 🌈

today’s version: temporary arrangement of a drypoint engraving, lichen and hand-marbled suminashi

today’s version: a temporary arrangement of drypoint,etching and suminagahi

weird ice on the canal today…

conjuring at year’s end… cutout drypoint engraving on gampi + birch bark assemblage

wip… India ink on aspen leaf

October sunrise

The Darling underwing moth (Catocala cara)

autumnal

🍁 this morning through the magic window 🍂

Lesser Maple Spanworm moth in the forest today! #teammoth

wip ink on suminagashi marbled Japanese paper

wip… ink on suminagashi marbled Japanese paper

weed shadow drawing in process—ink on suminagashi marbled Japanese paper…

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studio view…

I spy a Primrose moth… #nationalmothweek2025

weed shadow drawing—ink on suminagashi marbled Japanese paper

a snippet from today’s suminagashi session… marbling and ink drawing on Japanese paper (detail)

and another, or maybe the same, Clymene moth at the window tonight!

Clymene moth (Haploa Clymene) at the forest edge today!

fallen bird nest…

new weed shadow drawing—bittersweet, India ink on suminagashi marbled Rives Lightweight paper, 9 1/2 x 13 inches

Large Lace Border moth

Leconte’s Haploa moth

Banded Tussock moth and friend

Xanthotype sp. moth (Crocus or False Crocus Geometer)

A new weed shadow drawing in process: ink and wash on Greenish Kitakata paper from Awagami factory…

Happy Solstice!

Salt Marsh Tiger moth at the windows last night!

Little Virgin Tiger moth at the window tonight!

Yellow Slant-Line moth seen on my morning walk…

today’s moth report: Large Purplish Gray (Iridopsis vellivolata)

#wip #collage #printmaking #reliefprint #intaglio large wax crayon rubbing on Sekishi washi with cut paper and drypoint, in process…

happy vernal equinox! today’s version: diorama in a hatbox, with a drypoint engraving, suminagashi, India ink, bark and lichen… #printmaking #diorama #papersculpture #intaglio #drypointengraving #marbledpaper

today’s version: paper diorama photographed inside a shoebox with an old iPod Touch camera—monotypes and ink drawing on Japanese papers #printmaking #diorama #monotype #printmaker #papersculpture

a quiet moment in the swamp today…

today’s version: moth and thistle diorama photographed in a shoebox, with suminagashi marbled paper, a drypoint engraving, cut paper and a winter thistle collected from a receding snow bank… #printmaking #printmaker #diorama #papersculpture #intaglio #monotype

today’s version: paper diorama photographed inside a shoebox, with an etching (snow bunting), suminagashi, wax crayon rubbings, walnut ink and India ink on various Japanese papers… #printmaking #printmaker #diorama #etching #monotype #reliefprint #intaglio #papersculpture

today’s version: paper diorama photographed inside a hatbox, with an etching, suminagashi marbled paper, India ink, cut paper and yellow birch bark… #printmaking #printmaker #etching #papersculpture #drawing #diorama

today’s version: paper diorama in process inside a shoebox, with a lithograph, suminagashi marbled paper, monotypes and a drypoint engraving… #printmaking #printmaker #intaglio #lithograhy #papersculpture #diorama

we’ve entered the frozen mud phase of winter here, which really doesn’t help anything… but the puddle ice was pretty this morning.