Jordan’s block-printing gallery.
Zach and his Cardboard Car (~2008)
My grandson, Zach, was happy, playful, curious, and inventive, when he was about 3 years old.
He would delight in scooting up and down the house’s hallway. I should have taken a photo, but I found a similar one (showing a more elaborate/expensive box) used by a child of his age. ZACH thought of it first!
First Trip to The Donut Wheel (2025)
There is a lot of detail to be rendered in this 4” x 5” linoleum block. Difficult areas will be the glass door(s), the ‘tile’ floor, the white display case, and the suggestion of donuts.
I wanted to get an idea about how the block might print, so I rubbed a paper with a pencil over the surface. The carved block is shown below. It is still difficult to figure out how it will print.
Ed (2025)
I took a screenshot of Ed during a ZOOM meeting. I thought I would ‘challenge’ myself by trying to improve my linoleum block carving of faces. This block is 2″ x 3″. All the lines drawn will not be carved; they are there to help me delineate light and dark areas.
The pencil is shown for scale, as the block is approx. 2″ x 3″. The challenging part, as it usually is, was lighting the face, leaving lines for shadows, and shading.
A Mother’s Love
This is from a photo sent to me by a friend. She had observed the deer in her neighborhood.
The linoleum block is 3″ x 4″. It was difficult for me to simplify the carving, leaving out unnecessary details.
A “MOOer”
This is the linoleum block before inking and printing. There is still ‘room’ to correct some errors. Among the difficult areas are the clouds in the otherwise clear sky. It’s hard to show a ‘wispy, fluffy’ white cloud against a white background 😉
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