the hillbilly karma sutra, by tom huck.

the process and final print of carving and printing tigre de fuego, a large scale print i made and am currently printing at our local printmaking non-profit, stonemetal press.

(Source: qrow.com)

the curious case of the unidentifiable paper!

perhaps some of the printmakers, artists or general supplies enthusiasts can help me out here. while cleaning out old archives of forgotten paper, the director of our local print studio found this curious and unidentified paper. this studio has been around long before any of us were there so records of what kind of paper this might be are nonexistent.

it is a soft white sheet of 22x30”. if i could hazard a guess, it would say it is some sort of etching paper, cotton, but the sizing is unknown. it is but one sheet (probably part of a sample pack, since it was find among a pile of other unrelated single sheets of paper) and once had a price sticker on it as evident by the gross discoloration to where the tack met the sheet (on the print side no less! PAPER MANUFACTURES! STOP DOING THAT! IT RUINS THE PAPER!)

the reason i am curious though is mostly because it has a very unique, but unknown, identifying mark. unlike most fine papers, this page had a debossed logo on the screen side (instead of the usual internal watermark). an odd but all around cool looking goat head.

does anyone out there know who made this paper?

speaking of tiny printing.

i found a tiny children’s tortilla press at the grocery store the other day. can we say, tiny tortilla press prints?

how cute is this? the lil’est letterpress!

see more about this neat press project here.

currently have many of my most recent prints up for sale on etsy. have a look.

probably going to decide against the yellow flame.

small but mighty collection of inks and mods i use.

well, that’s not wholly true. caligo is pretty much the only inks here i use. but you can’t blame a gal for trying. one of my biggest weaknesses in art is wanting to try new things, material-wise. and when i come across stuff that fails my tests, i just can’t bring myself to get rid of it. well all except the majority of my oil based inks (mostly dan smith) which i donated since i switched to solvent-free printmaking.

rar!