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This Saturday, Dec. 2nd, I'll be tabling Tugboat Printshop woodcuts at Pittsburgh's annual Handmade Arcade! Stop by booth #57 to look & chat for a bit (back by the concessions); I'll be extending in-person holiday specials to print-lovers!
Event is from 11am-7pm at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center (Downtown Pittsburgh). Gonna be fun times; see you there!
We're going back through all of the "OVERLOOK" color blocks in preparation for first color proofing! We'll print a handful of copies during the proofing process, slowly fine-tuning color on each of the 5 blocks and carving the last block details, before we arrive at a finished 1st color proof. The 1st color proof will be a guide for how we mix & print during production. The full edition size of "OVERLOOK" will be 100 limited edition prints.We are planning to unveil the 1st color proof on Friday, August 21st, 2015 in the T.B.P.S. newsletter. Join up by entering your e-mail at www.tugboatprintshop.com and be the first to see & hear the latest details about the big "OVERLOOK" woodcut landscape!
Getting there! This is the most intense of all of the color blocks (1 of 4 total) for the "OVERLOOK" woodcut. Once this block drawing is finished, we'll begin carving all four color blocks. Hoping to start proofing & printing this March (2015)!
Many thanks to Cure for hosting us & our woodcut prints for a MADE FROM SCRATCH holiday reception in Lawrenceville this past Sunday, Dec. 15. We took a few photos of the dining room, cozy & aglow, before the doors opened to guests. Thanks to all that stopped by to see us!
This time last year, we were hard at work on "THE MOON" woodcut and *wow* was it ever a project! We spent many a night & day hunkered over these big blocks drawing & carving. And we loved every minute of it. We learned all of the oceans and seas, we thought long and hard about the space-battered surface of crater wells & dusty dunes. Hours and hours of drawing and dreaming about the moon. What a marvel it is!
We continue to find photos that we took to document the making of the print (as above, turning the jigsawed moon shape into place in the sky with a screwdriver)! Root through all of our photos up online in this PHOTO SET.
Prints are still available from the limited edition, but no telling for how long. Gift or get your very own 'MOON' & stars HERE.
Printing Earth for THE FOUR ELEMENTS Woodcut Set. This print, final size 12" x 10.25", is titled "CLOD". Available as a set here!
We're starting on a new series/time period in our woodcut history. We're calling this one BRAVE NEW WORLD. This period probably started around the time that we made the "FARM BARGE" print and has continued to include "THE FOUR ELEMENTS SET" and "THE MOON" as well. Now we're working through a couple of new big woodcuts (including the above, title TBA, the block of which is slightly taller than the 35.5" 'Moon' print). Actually, we kinda have this huge mass of ideas we can't wait to make happen…so it's back to work for us! Stay tuned for so much more this year. And please feel free to share with others!
This Friday, April 5th, from 5-8pm, we are having a release party to celebrate & unveil "THE MOON" woodcut print!
Enjoy light refreshments at this free & family friendly event and take advantage of this rare opportunity to learn about traditional woodcut printmaking from artists & printers Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth. Bring along a pal or a bunch of friends, the more the merrier! Party takes place from 5-8pm at our studios (298 Main St. in Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh)
The party will be themed for "THE MOON" print, but we actually have a handful of new prints to celebrate, AND are about to jumpstart our frameshop so everything you see on the walls will basically be available framed & ready to go. PLUS we'll have a couple of our latest BIG works in progress on display, for those curious about process & eager to see what's coming up from Tugboat Printshop…
A good time to stop by, we hope to see you!
"THE MOON" is a 35.5" x 30.5" color woodcut print on BFK Paper.
Also, feel free to join & share the MOON EVENT ON FACEBOOK!
The new "SNAKE VINE" woodcut is now available for a pre-order of sorts! Happy 1st day of Spring!
"SNAKE VINE" is a 11" x 20.5" color woodcut printed from three hand-drawn and carved blocks (of birch plywood) by team Tugboat (Paul and Valerie). Printed on Natural Kitakata Paper in a limited edition of 200 prints. Prints will ship post-production, the week of April 5th, 2013. Visit our online shop for details!
Or view all of our available prints HERE!
"FROND"
9" x 11" Color Woodcut Print on Natural Japanese Kitakata Paper
Paul Roden + Valerie Lueth, 2013.
EDITION OF 100 PRINTS.
About the size of an actual leaf, "FROND" rainbows from dark to deep berry red. Feathery veins burst from the central stem in pleasant little poofs!
NOW AVAILABLE HERE!
This was actually the first block that we made in our new Elements woodcut series ~ Earth Air Fire Water. We've clocked a lot of drawing and carving hours now and are making good headway on the set of 4 ~ should be proofing by the week's end! Color will be absolutely not the colors we drew in the blocks with. Expect instead bright! rich! lively color combos!
Preorder the set of 4 in our next newletter (join on our website here)! And if you missed our last newsletter, we have a new shipping policy online ~ $5.00 US Shipping on any of our prints (And FREE if your order's over $150)!
Sloping green-tinted waves push the great red "FARM BARGE" across the rolling sea. Equipped with a green deck, lush vegetable sprouts pushing up from a myriad of folky raised beds, this repurposed ship is a futuristic and self-sustainable mobile farmland. A daydream invention, the "FARM BARGE" idealizes resourcefulness.
"FARM BARGE" is printed from 4 woodblocks (yellow, red, blue, and black) onto Ivory White Somerset paper. Paper size is a standard 16" x 20". Edition size of 100 prints. Pre-order intro rate still available for a limited time HERE and in our ETSY.
Yellow, Red, and Blue blocks to be carved & printed with the key block to complete the "FARM BARGE" Woodcut!
Join us this Friday, July 6th, at Tugboat Printshop's Studios in Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh) to view the finished "FARM BARGE" color print! We'll be open for Penn Ave. First Friday from 5-8pm, with drinks & music & prints & fun!
The "FARM BARGE" print is also available for pre-order online. Pre-order rates are limited time intro deals, so if you like a bargain and you like this print, get one HERE!
The key block for the new "FARM BARGE" woodcut is carved! We are a little behind on the documenting…the color blocks are already almost completed, too! This print is available for pre-order on our website for a limited time. Get a copy HERE!
And we're having a release party for the finished print this Friday, July 6th from 5-8pm! More event details HERE!
We always find it interesting to see how our blocks look after printing. When drawing the images on wood, the ink seems to go down in layers, crisp & sharp as the pens that drew it (and, later, as the knives that carve it out). Sometimes we use different colored markers to denote different areas. But once the blocks are rolled up with ink, all of those marks & tonations merge into one big colorful shape. It always amazes us how precise it is! The rollers deposit ink on carved surfaces that don't print, too. Compare, if you'd like! Here too!
www.tugboatprintshop.com/woodcut_garden.htm
