Paul Coenen Prints and Drawings

Friday, September 19, 2008

Home is Where You Pull Yourself Together, 17" x 17" relief print

Here is the finished print!

Friday, July 18, 2008

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Studio Update June 2008

Studio shot above: built in shelves help greatly for space.

These drawings are 11" x 13" (above and below) They are sketches for a portfolio print that size. The folio will have 29 other artists in it.

Above and below: This is the Lino block. I am only going to use the middle portion for the Portfolio Print. Since I had a couple 17" x 17" block, I used the outside edges to frame the inside. So, I will have the print for the folio and then a 17" x 17" print that will not fit the folio. I may try to somehow fold the edges of the print underneath itself, so it will fit the 11" x 14" size, once it;s printed on thin mulberry paper. The lighter color on the block indicates where I cut already. Though I have gotten a lot farther than when I took the photo. I should be ready to print some proofs and figure out other layers at the end of the week.

Here's some recent "happenings" in the studio. Some sketches and some lino print blocks. The sketches I just need to do more of, since they do not take long. The cutting on the blocks goes pretty quick, being that linoleum is the easiest substance in the world to cut in the often grueling world of printmaking (besides that rubber stamp stuff). I want to print with more colors and layers with these new blocks. Black and white is so easy to get stuck in, but we'll see what happens.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Vermont Studio Center residency Nov./Dec 2007 (page one)

These are images of the new project I started at the Vermont Studio Center (with funding from the Rowland Foundation). It is still in progress. I re-posted the the images this month, at a smaller file size.