Here is yet another experiment in wood. This was cut on a piece of Shina plywood. I know there are better woods to work in. But I have a few pieces of this stuff left and I hate to see anything go to waste. I made 20 prints. Most will remain as shown. But a few will be handpainted after the ink dries.
Morel and Frog is an image that doodled out of my pencil and into my sketchbook one day. I like the old Frog and Toad illustrations by Arnold Lobel. I like forest creatures. I like mushrooms and all the little bugs that crawl around in decaying wood. If this print looks childlike, well I guess that’s ok with me. Because playing in the woods, looking for frogs and mushrooms is something I havent done in a long time….since childhood. Every now and then when I’m fishing along the AuSable River I’ll stop and look at an old log or a mushroom and remember those days as a child in the woods.
The Heron 