Tom Kristensen
Woodblock Prints
Artist:
Tom Kristensen (1962 -)
Title:
Mount Solitary - The Blue Mountains
Date:
2009Edition: Limited edition 3/15, pencil signed at lower right. Publisher: Tom Kristensen Printer: Tom Kristensen Carver: Tom Kristensen Deion: Woodblock print showing Mount Solitary in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney (Australia). The printed image is 13 1/2" x 8 1/2" and the sheet size is 17 1/4" x 10 3/4".
The following deion has generously been provided by Tom Kristensen.
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The Mount Solitary print was an unusual project for me, I made it as a pair to the Three Sisters. I didn't have a lot of paper - its a particularly fine Iwano Ichibei washi - so I closed the edition at 15 prints with a few AP copies. The AP copies are nice enough copies, but they will have a speck somewhere that I didn't think passable. Sometimes I look at these copies later and think I have been too hard on myself. Normally I make too many prints, this time I made too few.
With my prints I make them all in one sitting which usually takes a few days to a week including the proofing stage where colours and techniques are settled. While I do keep the blocks I am not likely to reprint from them, and if I did I would make a distinctly different print.
Each of these prints follows this set-up
1 cedar block for the sandstone texture, 1 impression
1 pine block for the foliage texture, 1 impression - these two blocks are sandblasted to bring out the grain.
4 cherry block for the sky and the valley with at least 2 impressions per block
Where a bokashi is used I sometimes do an impression early and then use the rest of the block to over-print. If the end result needs a little more power, I will lay down another bokashi impression. This has the advantage of leaving wet areas of the paper to dry a little before reprinting. I can't claim to know exactly how many impressions there are, but we could say 12 and not be far off. As you will have noticed i have made extensive use of goma-zuri to keep an open texture that feels more like foliage.
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Editors Note:
Bokashi is a colour gradation of a single color by hand applying a gradation of ink to a moistened wooden printing block, rather than inking the block uniformly. Goma-zuri is a sesame seed (speckled) pattern.
If your interested in seeing more of Tom's work please visit Katoomba Fine Art Gallery and Saru Gallery.
Artist:
Tom Kristensen (1962 -)
Title:
Three Sisters - The Blue Mountains
Date:
2009Edition: Limited edition 20/45 , pencil signed at lower right. Publisher: Tom Kristensen Printer: Tom Kristensen Carver: Tom Kristensen Deion: Woodblock print showing the Three Sisters in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney (Australia). The printed image is 13 1/2" x 8 1/2" and the sheet size is 17 1/4" x 10 3/4".
This print is a 'pair' to Mount Solitary (the deion for that print includes additional detail provided by Tom Kristensen regrading the making of these prints).
If your interested in seeing more of Tom's work please visit Katoomba Fine Art Gallery and Saru Gallery.