The start of a new series featuring framed works on wallpaper. All printed on my Takach printing press.

'A Pattern of Rural Domesticity' • wallpaper = about 8ft x 5ft, print within baroque frame is 8x10in • all woodcut images, with tiny etching in window beside chicken image
Printing the wallpaper, block by block:


A closeup of the pattern.... Bones and offal (intestines, feet, etc), axes...the joys and horror of processing chickens I guess.
And the chicken (Gold Laced Wyandotte, cock), a reduction woodcut, with little etching for outdoor window scene:
And finally, the colors used to print the chicken in the framed reduction print:



Posted by S.V. Medaris 

