Yellow Roses

Each numbered, signed, and titled on A4 size Awagami Paper and inked in Caligo.  

Each numbered, signed, and titled on A4 size Awagami Paper and inked in Caligo.  

A free-spirited everblooming rose bush flaunts her yellow blossoms.  Fallen rose petals scatter in my garden, while new buds begin to flourish.

Roses emerge and dissolve in Yellow Roses through blending effects in reduction carving methods and properties of a limited monochrome palette in process yellow.  

Working in a small batch of only four, this limited-edition woodcut has four inked layers: process yellow tint, process yellow, process yellow shade, and black.  Uniquely to this print each impression results in a slightly lighter version than its prior, owing to the final black layer processed as a ghost print.  While printed in a traditional reduction method, each print is unique due to the interaction of color between the final ghost black layer and prior yellow layers.