Ever feel like you are being watched while in the forest? For me it's usually these guys, blue jays, perched nearby watching me intently. They can be annoying for sure, but I can't help but respect their bold confidence and tenacity, they certainly have the other birds and squirrels hopping out of the way at the feeder and bath. Sporting vivid blue color and that regal crown it's no wonder they are king of the backyard.
This print represents springtime. We sometimes get a wet spring snowfall, so I thought snow on the branches with the new green leaves sprouting would depict how it is where these trees live. Of course the blue jays are here all year, but some may have wintered in warmer areas, in the spring they really seem to want to squawk to the world "wake up it's spring!"
This is a reduction print, meaning that the relief surface is carved away after each layer of ink to preserve the previous color, basically destroying the block as the work progresses. I didn't keep very close track of the number of layers on this one, but I think it ended up with about nine. There are 17 clean prints that survived the process out of the original 22, After printing the blue sky I had them hanging to dry with the window open and the wind blew some of them into each other smearing some, ugh, lesson learned the hard way.
Ever feel like you are being watched while in the forest? For me it's usually these guys, blue jays, perched nearby watching me intently. They can be annoying for sure, but I can't help but respect their bold confidence and tenacity, they certainly have the other birds and squirrels hopping out of the way at the feeder and bath. Sporting vivid blue color and that regal crown it's no wonder they are king of the backyard.
This print represents springtime. We sometimes get a wet spring snowfall, so I thought snow on the branches with the new green leaves sprouting would depict how it is where these trees live. Of course the blue jays are here all year, but some may have wintered in warmer areas, in the spring they really seem to want to squawk to the world "wake up it's spring!"
This is a reduction print, meaning that the relief surface is carved away after each layer of ink to preserve the previous color, basically destroying the block as the work progresses. I didn't keep very close track of the number of layers on this one, but I think it ended up with about nine. There are 17 clean prints that survived the process out of the original 22, After printing the blue sky I had them hanging to dry with the window open and the wind blew some of them into each other smearing some, ugh, lesson learned the hard way.