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 These are all woodcut prints, my primary medium.  Black and white images are standard relief woodcuts, while color images are hand colored, in the tradition of Europe in the middle ages, using watercolor paints.  Click on images to enlarge them. A History of Art  shows many of the things that inspired me to be an artist and influenced the art that followed. The structure borrows from Bruegel's Tower of Babel paintings, while the items all were things from my life.  These next four are from a series called  Ecclesiastes , a visual adaptation of the Old Testament book, meant to carry the same effect as reading the original text, but through more contemporary imagery. These next four are from a series called Everyman , based on my reading of Butler's Lives of the Saints , an authoritative work that collects biographical information about every saint recognized by the Catholic Church, past or present. The dates are the feast days, how the books (four volumes)...

 These projects were all designed to work with principles of art and design valued by the schools.  New projects can be created to suit the needs of new schools. Above and below, stipple drawings from black and white photographs, showing source photo and student drawing. black and white logo color temperature collage- two seasons of the year (acrylic paints on paper) color wheel/tints and shades/complementary color mix, acrylic paints on paper color still life paintings, acrylic paints on paper The next four are studies of color palettes, students given 6 options, of which they had to choose 4 to do.   Image source was a black and white photo of their choosing.  Values in the source were to be a factor in how the colors were chosen. Acrylic on paper. The next two are examples of a project where students were asked to create a board game with the design based on the artwork of a particular artist of their choosing.  Game theme/title would relate to that as well. ...

Woodcut prints created by students in class at various colleges, 2D class.  Mixed media artworks (woodcut plus painting) done by a BFA student as part of an independent study class in woodcut printmaking Above and below, examples of linocut prints, created by participants in a local class, black relief ink on paper of their choosing, designed, cut, and printed by the students in one meeting. Multi block woodcut by student from the Belmar class. Above, color piece is a chin colle by a Belmar student, following a demonstration of the process in class.  Below, my demonstration piece from that class. Above, art by students in woodcut classes taught locally. Below, students working in such situations, carving relief blocks.  Examples of monotypes created by students at various colleges where I taught.   Introductory level collograph, black ink, hand colored