Our read-alouds have not been fantasy for quite a while.  We had a long stretch of classic British Golden Age mystery stories, and...

        Here’s a somewhat surreal wood or linoleum block print by Alberto Beltrán García (Mexico, 1923-2002).  I like the mysterious vaul...

        Today’s nativity scenes are from the twentieth century, and demonstrate the idea of revisiting a theme repeatedly.  I would tend t...

        I have two more images of the birth of Jesus today, from the broad mid-range of the chronology between the Renaissance and the tw...

        In European art the nativity of Jesus has long been a favorite subject, and I’ve collected a number of lovely relief block prints ...

There are strange things done in the midnight sun       By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales       Tha...

        It’s a grey day here, not a black and white one.  Fog and drizzle aren’t natural subjects for single color relief block prints, bu...

        This weekend I will be participating in two shows/sales.         Saturday, 10:00-5:00 - Holiday Open Studio in my own house, as on...

        James Spitzer (US b. 1936) has a very distinctive style, all blobby shapes with lots of inked lines left in the carved out areas. ...