Lily S. May–Life with Art
I've often included images of nature in my artwork. Recently, I came across these two photos of woodcuts from the 1970s, one of which I've sold out. So it's great to have a record of it. When I began printmaking, I became interested in depicting trees showing both their branches and roots as in these… Continue reading Grain
Finally, this week I did something I've been planning to do for a while. I created a page about the most popular art work I've done--my card deck, Mirrors of the Heart. It's made of linocuts I created in 1994 and had offset printed. There are other images from the deck in the Mirrors category.
I've included two photos in this post of the lino block that I carved in 2005 that led to the print I call Observer. I first painted an image on the block. However, the act of carving was often somewhat intuitive. I made decisions about the texture and changed the image as I went along instead of having a… Continue reading Print in Progress
Last month I came upon a copy of a print of mine that I'd remembered over the years but thought was lost to me. The print was part of a very small edition and I had no copies left. I found it in my mother's apartment after her death. It was a lovely and timely surprise to… Continue reading At Peace Linocut
Here's a variation on the theme of the birth of imaginary goddesses. This is another linocut that I made in 1974, again under my former married name.
Here's another linocut I made in the 1970s. Again, the theme has to do with an imaginary goddess. This time she doesn't appear, but one of her masks does.
In keeping with prints on the theme of birth, here's a mythological scene I hand carved and hand printed in 1974. I did several prints at the time on imagined goddesses. This is one of them, in celebration of spring.
This is a linocut I made in 1983 that was printed in a women's health journal. The article was on midwifery. I hand carved and handprinted the image. I've put the linocut up for sale in my etsy shop.
Here's another linocut I made when I was just starting out. It arose from my love of seeing images in clouds.
As I meander through the art work I've done, I wanted to show you this linocut I made when I was just learning printmaking. I called this print "Monk Bird" because I thought the bird looked like a monk of sorts. The photo here is of a proof I made, meaning it's not one of… Continue reading Early Linocut–Monk Bird
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