Here’s a doozy of a landscape - my take on the beautiful Central Coast of California featuring the California Quail and the Seven Sisters mountain range, some of the local flora and a portion of the coastline.
This print took weeks to work out as it had so many layers of depth and detail. The key block was used twice, once for a light beige layer that added shadows for the color fields and the final line art and contrast. There were 3 other blocks used in the middle for transparent blue, yellow and bright pink which worked together to create green, orange, purple and brown. In total, it’s a 5 color print (with a 2 color reduction block.)
Limited edition of 110, 13”x19” signed and numbered on 100 lb Cougar Natural acid-free cover.
Originally commissioned by the Slo County Stumblers
Reduction, hand-carved linoblock print featuring an iconic midcentury home, complete with well curated horticultural sundries and a resident tiger. (Naturally)
5 colors, 3 blocks with a reduction block for the key art.
Limited edition, approx 13”x19” on 100 lb Cougar Natural, acid free cover weight paper.
Two Redwing Blackbirds swoop in for the same mayfly.
6 color linocut print, 2 reduction blocks - The eventual key block began with the solid green background, then slightly darker green foliage, followed by a solid gray bird “body” - then a second block was used for the gold and red details on the wings - and finally back to the key block for the black final details on the bird.
Limited edition of 100 - signed and numbered. 12”x12” on 100 lb acid free French Cream Speckletone paper
“The more we get together, the happier we’ll be!” A small tear-off monthly calendar wishing you a sweet year of friendship and community in 2023 from Camp Nevernice. It’s the year of the rabbit, after all! Let’s all hope we find our “home for a bunny.”
6.5” x 11.5” on chipboard
Behold the armadillo….comfortable with his modest primrose border.
Limited edition linocut reduction print. 2 colors. Printed on acid free cougar natural paper. 8”x10”
The bear has presumably woken up to a feeling of intense nostalgia, reminiscing about the summer feeling of his youth. For further insight…listen to “That Summer Feeling” by Jonathan Richman. It has nothing to do with bears or mid-century modern bedroom decor, but everything to do with the intended sentiment.
Linocut reduction, 2 editions (70 and 35) printed on two kinds of acid-free paper. 3 blocks, 4 layers.
After 2020, we all became a little more aware of our home lives. Whether we identified as a homebody or not, we became homebodies as our houses became our offices, our restaurants and our sanctuaries. This is a little ode to the home; may we all have gratitude for the roof over our heads - whatever form it takes.
The illustration is 5 colors, hand carved and printed from 3 linoleum blocks. Key block is a reduction block responsible for 3 of the 5 layers. Limited edition, can not be reprinted.
There are two versions of this print, both signed and numbered.
Choose from:
With letterpress type “Homebody” - 27 in the edition
Without type - 71 in the edition
A limited edition, hand-carved linoleum print by Laura Baisden (Camp Nevernice) that celebrates the curious beauty of a pair of Goldfinch pilfering a bounty of their favorite seeds from a cluster of Coneflower and Thistles.
3 Blocks, 4 colors: Yellow, Magenta, Blue and Black. (Yellow and Black were from the same reduction block) Edition of 84
The frog playing the guitar in this print was loosely based on Beatrix Potter’s beloved character, Mr. Jeremy Fisher; a charming gentleman frog who leads a mostly quiet life wearing waistcoats and fishing in the bog by his home. Here, Mr. Jeremy Fisher has been reinvented as the mountain music version of himself, playing the guitar for his friends while they join in with flat foot dancing - the appropriate form of dancing for some very flat-footed frogs, I would say.
4 Colors - 3 blocks, printed on 100 lb cover acid-free paper, signed and numbered edition of 76
12.75”x18”
On March 3, 2020, parts of Nashville were shocked to wake up to their homes and neighborhoods looking like a giant had smashed his fists down violently on every tree and rooftop within sight. Trampolines were high up in the branches of trees 3 blocks away. Homes looked like doll houses, open to the street with their towels still hanging on the bathroom door and sheets still on the beds, but no roof and no outside walls. For most of us, it was the most shocking display of the power of nature and massive communal loss. In the wake of the storm, people came to help. Streets were filled with wagons full of drinking water and volunteers pushing wheelbarrows and carrying rakes and trash bags. You could hear the constant surging buzz of chainsaws as trees and limbs were cut from rooftops, trying to salvage what was left. At any given moment, you would see a person standing in the middle of Holly Street, turning in a slow circle with a face of terror and amazement, taking it all in and trying to remember what it looked like before. I remember thinking that I didn't remember how close 19th street was to the golf course or realize that "Little Hollywood" was just on the other side of the woods from Holly and 21st. With so few trees left, you could really see the whole neighborhood. The world got much smaller that day.
Little did we know that in about a week, everything would shutdown and that time with the whole city working together sawing limbs and carrying brush was the last time we would every be around so many people. So many bartenders gave up their tips that day to other restaurant workers who's livelihoods had been affected by the tornado damage. Then, within a week, those same bartenders would be without work.
I still walk through the damaged neighborhoods and wonder what has happened to the people who lived in the houses that are irreparable. To enter straight into a pandemic after just losing your home would make things a thousand times more difficult. I had to find room mates in the middle of June, and that was hard enough, I can't imagine losing your personal comforts and having to find a new home just before you go into total isolation.
I've wanted to do portraits of some of the houses. Some of them are still there, like touchstones reminding us that March wasn't that long ago. Pretty soon, the worst ones will be torn down and shiny new houses will be built and we will struggle to remember what our old neighborhoods looked like once again; first from the wreckage and then from repair.
20% of the sales from this print will go to Hands On Nashville and Gideon's Army, two organizations that did so much during the tornado and continues to find ways to serve the community.
Starlings often make their nests in less than convenient locations. Imagine one taking up residence in your mailbox?
Inspired by the album “Dear Starling” by Pumpkin Bread Band. Hand carved linocut illustration, printed one color at a time on an antique Vandercook proofing press.
Limited edition of 49
3 blocks, 5 color reduction
13”x13”
I originally created this illustration for a library conference whose theme that year was "Collaborate." This was a little more of a tongue-in-cheek approach to thinking about the ways folks might think to work together as a team.
Coming home to the old homestead farmhouse against an October sky at dusk.
Altered from the original design for the Gillian Welch Chevy Impala series from fall 2018.
Limited edition of 48
13”x19”
2 blocks, 3 color reduction
These dogs are the 1902 regional football champions, turtlenecks and all. The stands are full, the squirrel mascot inspired a full sprint to the end zone and their stalwart schnauzer coach has taken them to the finals for another successful season.
Linocut, limited edition of 91. 5 colors, 4 blocks.
13.5” x 19”
I was floating in a tube one time in Percy Priest Lake and a MINK (a GOSH DANG MINK) came out of the trees and down to the rocks by the little cove I was floating in. At that moment, I wasn't sure what kind of animal it was, but he looked at me for a second with his shiny eyes, big otter nose and long ferret-like body and the BLOOPED right in to the lake. It was simultaneously shocking and magical. He swam under my float, surfaced, back-paddled for a second, looked me in the eyes again, and then BLOOPED back under and out of the water to the rock he came from, shaking out his shiny walnut fur. He was my sharp-toothed, catfish wrestling spirit animal, and I loved him.
13x19"
3 color reduction on 2 blocks
A Note about color: The image looks heavily edited because the orange is NEON and is therefore very difficult to show in photos. The blue is accurate. They look much better in real life, but this is as close as I could get it!
So, sometimes your cat is a real jerk and knocks your first serious house plant off the radiator because she's jealous or something and proceeds to gnaw on its leaf stems and everything, rendering it completely lifeless. Then you get home and she's waiting to show you...apathetically...what she did. It's not an apology. But, when you get angry and chase her through the house with a scrap of plant leaves in your hand-- she'll hide under the bed for two days, and somehow you'll be the one who says, "Sorry, cat."
This autobiographical print is 12x16"
This is a re-print (2nd edition) in which I re-carved the first 2 colors and it varies slightly from the first edition.
Buffalos are becoming a "thing" for ol' Camp Nevernice. Over the years, I've carved 4 buffalo scenes. This one is the newest, printed this year. He/she is depicted in front of "Chief Mountain" at Glacier National Park in Montana perched on a high plain amidst some Larkspur, Harebell and lupine....a regular Ferdinand! Though they're all different, for whatever reason, I make them all face the same way! I really love how this one's face turned out especially.
Limited edition of 74
5 colors, 2 reduction blocks
13x18"
Hipster Animal Band!
A sweet little happy pair of llama buddies on a hill with a big puffy cloud in the bright blue sky! (This print is named "Wendy Llama" after my friend who originally commissioned them for a buddy who just had her second baby).
Signed and numbered limited edition of 67. linocut reduction using 2 blocks.
10"x13" on off-white 100lb cover
This mama deer and her two fawns are out in a meadow at dusk, with the hills off in the distance. A familiar scene, albeit more colorful...
Limited edition Linocut print
11x14 on acid-free natural 100lb cover
Just something I sometimes need help remembering....it's a "this too shall pass" mixed with a general reminder to BE PATIENT. Slow down, take a breath.
12x18 linocut reduction- limited edition of 68 prints.
Two little river otters- hanging out at Rock Island State Park.
12 in x 18 in- Limited edition reduction linocut print
Focus on the people you love when times get rough! Don't get distracted by the haters.
14 in x 18 in - Limited Edition reduction linocut
This image was just for fun, but the pattern itself was mind-boggling to work out. I printed it in several different color combinations, click on "buy this print" to see the other images.
12 in x 16 in- Limited Edition reduction linocut
11" x 14"- Limited Edition reduction linocut
No one truly succeeded in domesticating this beautiful, seemingly docile force of nature after all these years. The American Buffalo can jump a surprising 6 feet in the air and run up to 30-40 miles per hour, if they're so inclined. (Greyhounds run 45 miles an hour) In fact, they're cited as being a bad influence on domesticated species (like their cousins, the cows.) In 1820, a guy named Schoolcraft wrote:
"The attempts which have been made to domesticate this animal, have not been attended with success. Calves which have been taken in the woods and brought up with the tame breed, have afterwards discovered a wild and ungovernable temper, and manifested their savage nature by breaking down the strongest enclosure, and enticing the tame cattle into the woods."
Despite hundreds of years of environmental change, their "wild and ungovernable" nature remains. Today, all we've managed to do is endanger them. This is a portrait of a buffalo, but it's also a portrait of a certain kind of character I've always been so respectful of. The "quiet types"-- those who keep to themselves and rarely show anger or emotional reactions. They seem to me to be the most intimidating, and yet have such a soothing effect on a group--- The "Tommy Lee Jones" characters, you know? With these types, you get to see and experience a contradiction of terms and circumstance in action. With a buffalo, you have calm emanating from a beast capable of mayhem, you see an animal with power who rarely puts it to use, they have mass and yet are able to move so swiftly. They symbolize an unbroken spirit, a feeling you get when you drive across an open plain and see rock formations on the horizon-- where you smell the wildness of the thing, and your humanity slips away a little bit and you're aware that you're just...alive. Like the grass, or the birds or the buffalo. For a moment, you're inspired to jump the fence and run.
This print (like most of my prints) is a reduction. However, I used three different blocks. There are six colors total, and 92 prints in the edition.
This print is the embodiment of my childhood memories...if I were a turtle, my Dad were a bear and my cousins were skunks and bears. My family has a "camp" on a river with a canoe that we would paddle around in every time there was a family reunion or get together. It was very rustic, required a lot of work...often dirty...maybe you'd see a snake? Either way, there was always an element of wildness to it. It was summer camp, all year long...but never actually "nice."
11" x 14"- Limited Edition reduction linocut
Watch out for Rattlesnakes! (Unless they’re prints) I hand carved 3 different blocks to make this print- a blue for the sky, an orange block for the rock formations (over the blue and beige for the shadows), and a block that was first the beige and then carved again to make the dark brown.
13x19” with white border
12x16” bleed
Limited edition of 39
Sometimes you just need to make the extra effort and befriend the un-friendable. Even the toughest characters have a soft spot, and maybe they even like marshmallows.
12" x 12"- Limited Edition reduction linocut
What a lovely print this is and you are going to talk all about it here and people can buy it from here and this will be the best description written in the history of the known universe. Thanks, internet!
This illustration was created for the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, TN for their Young People's Concert series featuring Ravel's Mother Goose Suite. I opted to make her a tad more sophisticated than other "Mother Gooses" to fit the classical music scene.
11" x 14"- Limited Edition reduction linocut (2 blocks)
14" x 18"- Limited Edition reduction wood cut
This sympathy card is perfect to send to all your hip friends with aesthetically pleasing but completely non-functional mopeds. (Like me)
Blank inside. Available in green, orange and turquoise.
This is a reinterpretation of an old travel poster from the 50's. It's of the beautiful seaside in Genoa, Italy. A dear friend commissioned this piece as a gift for his grandfather, who came from there. I have a limited number of prints left from this edition.
15 x 23
A little owl-duo, being sweet. This print is so little- it makes a nice present if you want to get something small...but, I have also used this print for a wedding invitation before- the info was printed on the back! Ask if that's something that appeals to you!
5x7
Blank-inside multipurpose greeting card
Do you know someone who needs encouragement? Do you like PUNS? Then this is the card for you! (It's an added bonus if you're also sending it to someone who plays the Ukelele)
Blank Inside- available in Blue, green, turquoise, orange and citron
Don't worry, the fox can't get through that curvy hole in the ground! Those rabbits are safe and sound.
11x14- Limited Edition reduction linocut
Know any pug-lovers? I sure do...which is why I made this card.
#puglife
Blank inside- available in yellow, blue, green, coral, pink and purple.
Hibernation is just one big slumber party.
12x12 Limited Edition reduction linocut
A slightly bossy consolation card. Maybe just save it for people who are only a little sad, and maybe sleepy?
Blank inside- available in green, orange, citron and turquoise
All the forest animals are lined up on the bank to cheer for their friend, Skitter the Raccoon as she chases the pesky hound dog away- back to the farm. This image is part of a series that will one day find itself in the form of a children's book!
11x14 Limited Edition reduction linocut
Mr. and Mrs. Beaver (a portrait)
11x14 Limited Edition reduction linocut
One lone bison, grazing on the plain.
16x20 Limited Edition reduction linocut [sold out]
Left blank for you to fill out with your own family! It was intended as a gift for a couple who was expecting their first child- Includes space for Maternal/Paternal grandparents, Maternal/Paternal siblings and spouses and then the "nest" is where the childrens' names go.
Horse-man in a pin striped suit.
8x10
He may or may not have just consumed a logger.
8x10 Limited Edition reduction linocut
What if you own a very normal house on a very normal street, but you're married to a beautiful person for 15 years and this is how you see your home? This was a commissioned piece based on that very concept.
14x18 Limited Edition reduction linocut
Sometimes you just need to remember to stay calm and keep your wits about you!
Silkscreen print (sold out)
The first in the series of "tree" houses, the idea being that they're all connected to each other. If you have them all, they will build one into the next when hung on a wall in order.
14x18 Limited Edition linocut reduction
The second in the series of "tree" houses, the idea being that they're all connected to each other. If you have them all, they will build one into the next when hung on a wall in order.
14x18 Limited Edition linocut reduction
Skitter the raccoon has jumped onto Ol' Brummy's back- scaring him half to death and running him out of the woods and back off to the farm where he belongs! This image is part of a series that will one day find itself in the form of a children's book!
11x14 Linocut
One of my first prints! A regal polar bear in a red arm chair.
16x20 Limited Edition reduction linocut (sold out)
Ringo and Skitter (raccoon siblings), jump out of their old beech tree at dusk ready to start the evening's adventures! This image is part of a series that will one day find itself in the form of a children's book!
11x14 Limited Edition reduction linocut
Two hands, two different bouquets to apartment number two.
16x20 Limited Edition reduction linocut
Uncle Mog is headed up the hill and into the woods with his old coon dog- Brummy. This image is part of a series that will one day find itself in the form of a children's book!
11x14 Limited Edition reduction linocut
I took a class and made a print with the Risology Club here in Nashville, TN to learn more about the risograph process and expand my horizons. This is a limited edition (very short run) of prints using florescent orange ink and cornflower blue ink layered to make this fun little image with a spin on take out. Take me (out). It’s beautifully mis-registered and was a lot of fun to make using a marker drawing I did plus some magazine collage for the fill color and shadow. Hope you enjoy - including the process photos so you can see the semi-chaotic way these were thrown together to make the magic happen.
Limited edition of 21 (only 8 available) on 80 lb off-white paper, 11”x17”
