Portraits
This is a series of portraits of close friends, carved using images provided by the subjects. I solicited these images during the years of a waning pandemic, while working in my home studio, where I could stare for hours into the faces of my loved ones. The final prints served as practice for instructing my Introduction to Relief Printmaking class. Students who wish to work from photographs are assisted in the decision-making process of applying pattern and contrast to deal with midtones, which can often be difficult to translate into relief prints.