Pillows too

I've also been making block printed pillows, and pillows with printed fabric showing my 'It's not the moths' linocut.

Tiger!

I had this printed orange patterned paper, so I made a tiger. I like the idea of block printing onto patterned paper. This print is 21 cm wide and 26 cm tall. I carved one block to print the white and one to print the black areas. Though, generally, if you were planning to block print a tiger, most people would plan an orange block and and black block onto white paper. Since the pattern has a wider repeat scale than that, each print varies somewhat, especially the proof below. I wanted the vertical aspect ratio, but I like the horizontal more than I thought I would.

tiger tea time

This is a tea cozy I made. The image is of a multimedia artwork I made called 'Darjeeling' of a tiger enjoying a cuppa tea (painted in ink with collaged Japanese washi, in an ornate, vintage frame) which I had printed onto fabric (by Spoonflower). Then I combined new and vintage fabrics (cotton, wool, ribbon and quilting batting) and hand-block-printed fabric to make this one of a kind cozy.







For those who prefer coffee...

tiger face with robot

So, do any of you people drive along Dupont much? Cause there's a giant tiger mural, with a freaking robot of the roof on a garage of late.






Some times one needs to get out of the car and take some photos.

Year of the Tiger

I'll be there.

The Year of the Tiger

My 'Hu: The Tiger' print will be included in the Year of the Tiger Print Exhibition, which is having an Opening on Sunday, February 14th from 2-4 at PROOF to which, my Toronto friends are all invited!

Date & Time: February 10, 2010 - 11:00am - March 6, 2010 - 12:00am
Location: PROOF Studio Gallery, Studio 104, Bldg. 74, Case Goods Warehouse,

Sheila Jonah, John Drajewicz & Natalie Draz of PROOF Studio Gallery in the Distillery District Celebrate the Year of the Tiger 2010 at PROOF Studio Gallery in the Case Goods Warehouse in the Distillery District. Printmakers from all over the world including China, Europe, Australia and from across Canada send their handmade etchings, lithographs, silkscreens and relief prints done in the traditonal methods to be exhibitied for the 9th International Print Exhibition for the Chinese Year.

Join us for our Chinese New Year opening Sunday February 14 for fortune cookies and fun! Over 100 printmakers participate annually in the International Exhbition celebrating the Chinese New year

I rarely have New Year's resolutions, but this year, I resolved to submit some prints to print exhibtions. So far, so good.