Paper Raven Art! The Art of Mark B Hill

It has been a long time coming but I finally have a workspace again.  It has all the amenities that are integral with creativity.  DVD player and DVDs, TV, iPod, CDs...oh yeah and drawing table and other art supplies...I don't know what happened really.  My productivity came t...

Yep, I'm still here, just in case you were wondering.  Always doodling, searching for ideas.  I always tend to slow down during the end of the year.  I am, however, feeling the urge to get back to work on more artwork.My studio is still a mess.  It's a slow process.  I ha...

Inspirations, collaborations, mis pronunciations. Ohhs, Ahhs, Rants,Raves. Polished, shiney, rough tumbled visions from my head to your eyes.Take your shoes off and run thru them with me!!!!

Although I just posted this a few weeks ago, I wanted to repost it because it just made it onto the Skull-a-Day website! It being Halloween and all, I encourage you to check it out!

Mark B Hill, a past contributor from Middleton, WI sent us this: “I can't help myself, I did another linocut skull! This is a bookplate, which is a label you stick inside your books to say "this is my book." In fact, that's more or less what Ex Libris means. ...

I have just realized what the most labor-intensive aspect of printmaking is. It's not carving the block, not the actual printing, oh no.  It's coloring, individually coloring each and every one of the prints.So that is why I have posted any prints in over a week.  I have been watercolor...

Hand-pulled and hand-colored blockprints

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Today was printing day.  This is the full print run of Hermetic Bicycle, an edition of 50.  I am now printing all my prints on Stonehenge paper.  This decision was arrived at with little trial and error.  I bought a couple different kinds of "printmaking" paper and found them ...

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