“Rise Above” Woodblock Print
Rise Above (click image to enlarge)
- Hand-made, hand-printed Woodblock Print
- 4″x4″ image on 6″x8″ Shin Torinako paper
- Edition of 24 with 2 Artist Prints
Quantity Available: 13
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After making the first of the skater series, I came home from work the next day, tired from staying up till 2am the night before, and wanted to make more.
You can read from my blog about listening to more punk rock and making more skater prints here.
I put on more punk rock and got to work.
This print is named for a Blag Flag song from the album Damaged:
“Rise Above” from the album Damaged
This print was also the first that I started to think of this series as less of a way to blow off some steam after work, and as a way to perform Deliberate Practice. I focused on the craft of creating these prints, and decided that I would work on my skills of carving blocks and arranging small black and white images while making these prints.
The truth is, these prints are much more about practice than they are about skateboards and punk rock. I used punk rock and skateboards to keep the practice fun.