new wood engraving

I’ve mostly been experimenting with creating compositions by printing various found materials (with varying degrees of preparation to create a printable surface).  However I have also just finished editioning a wood engraving.  The wood is birch, cut from a piece I found in the firewood pile.  The image is in a fairly traditional style, printed by hand using a burnisher with carefully varied pressure to enhance the sense of distance in this landscape scene from near the top of Mt Barnaby in Samuel P Taylor State Park.  I realise now that looking back from the house, I can just see Mt Barnaby in the distance, and hence where I am is here in this image too, on the far horizon beyond Black Mountain.

View of Black Mountain, wood engraving, Peter McLean, 2011

 

Tags: art, circles, mountains, printmaking, prints, trees, wood engraving