RABBIT'S HOUSE / FINAL PRINT

Here you go. This is the final print of the Rabbit's House, ready to be sent off to Scott Rink to be used as a backdrop for his stage adaptation of "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland".

RABBIT'S HOUSE / NEXT STEP

I just finished printing image #2 for the "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" stage production. Started cutting the image at 3 this afternoon, took a little break for dinner and then got back to cutting the remainder of the image. Finished cutting by 9:30, prepped the paper, got the press ready and printed a small edition. I'll post the scanned final image after it dries properly. Until then, here's a scan of the cut lino and the inked lino before printing.

CUT LINO (SCAN)


INKED LINO

RABBIT'S HOUSE / NEXT STEP

I'm running a little slowly here, the results of a pinched nerve in my neck/back. Even the simplest of actions is a bit tedious when this happens, and since most of the process working on one of these pieces is about being hunched over my desk, it's not something I should be doing right now. But I have managed to get a good sketch down on to the linoleum making it just about ready to be cut. A lot of little details in this one, and I'm looking forward to cutting it out but want to make sure I'm focused properly on the piece before I start. Should have something for you to look at by the end of the week.

ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND / RABBIT'S HOUSE

This is a pencil sketch for the next image I'll be creating a print of, The Rabbit's House. The next step is to transfer the image to linoleum, clean it up, and make adjustments and then the cutting process begins.

CHESHIRE CAT - PRINT/FINAL

This is the final version of my Cheshire Cat print before it gets handed off to Scott Rink and becomes turned into the stage version. (His posture is such that it looks like he's laying on a branch).

CHESHIRE CAT - PROGRESS/PROCESS

I finally started work on my Cheshire Cat print for the stage production of "Alice In Wonderland" that my friend Scott Rink is putting together to be presented in Baltimore later this year. Below are a few pics from this afternoon. And yes, I do some of my best work barefooted.

I'll post a scan of the finished print as soon as it's dry.

PENCIL DRAWING ON LINOLEUM



CUT LINO (SCAN)



INKED LINO

SCREECHER - FINAL PRINT

FINAL LINO-CUT PRINT



"Screecher" the latest creature in the Berube-Bugs Mailart series has been printed up and sent out to a number of participants already. If you'd like to see what the printing process entails, head over to my Berube-Bugs Blog to get a step by step visual of the experience as well as what the postcards look like when they're sent out.

VISIT TO CONNECTICUT

I know, I know, it's been since the beginning of the month since I posted here. It doesn't mean I haven't been busy blogging, it just means you've only been looking in one of the many blogs I have going right now. Most of the action has been happening in my BERUBE-BUGS mailart blog. Which brings me to this current post. In an effort to reclaim my status of Son, I went for a short visit to Connecticut a few days ago to say hello to Mom, Dad and more birds and bugs than you can possibly imagine. I'm always amazed at the variety of birds and insects on view around the family's yard, and with a looming deadline to create the June BerubeBug, it was with great pleasure I sat on the back porch in Bristol Connecticut and was inspired to create The Greater Bristol Googleyed Screecher.


THE GREATER BRISTOL GOOGLEYED SCREECHER




TIGERLILLIES

EAST HAMPTON

I'm working up at a beach front home assisting on a photo shoot this week. Fortunately it's one of the most beautiful parts of the East coast. The field of wild flowers, daisies and lupine, made an amazing impression while driving up to the property.

BERUBE-BUGS MAILART CALL

Because I’ve had so much fun with my “PORTRAIT” mailart call which officially ends on the 22nd of May, (I will continue to send out the remaining portrait cards that are printed up until they are completely gone), having received over 200 replies from 22 countries as far away as Romania, Serbia, Japan, Hungary and Malaysia and 16 states/29 towns within the United States I’ve decided try a new project.

This new mailart call is based around my crazy ongoing linocut print edition of what I call BERUBE-BUGS. If you’ve received any of my PORTRAIT reply postcards, you’ve also received some of the bugs created over this past year. They’re linocut images usually created on a small scale, (it started out over 10 years ago as a way of creating something utilizing the scrap pieces of linoleum I found my desk becoming inundated with after working on larger pieces), and bug-like in the loosest of terms. Some of these guys, and gals have 2 legs others have 15+ legs while some have wings, multiple eyes and the occasional human-like anatomically correct addition. So, although they are officially BERUBE-BUGS, perhaps creatures would be a more appropriate moniker.

What I’m planning on doing for this mailart call is to create a new BERUBE-BUG each month. For all bug-related replies received to my mailart call in any given month, I will return a limited edition hand-printed BERUBE-BUG postcard. Each month a new bug. All of my postcards have been and will be printed on recycled packaging, I suggest and would appreciate it if all participants do the same, think about the wonderful cereal boxes, dog biscuit boxes that go to waste.

So… the details are:

Send your BUG / INSECT / CREATURE related postcards to:

DAVID BERUBE
Dberube-Art
462 West 52nd. Street #3N
New York, N.Y. 10019
U.S.A.

Please, be creative, put a little bit of yourself into it whether you’re an artist or not, NO mass-produced postcards or images please. Postcards are preferred, but all creature-related images welcome as well.

All mailart received will be shown on my new BERUBE-BUGS blog.



This BERUBE-BUG, inspired by the time of year that brings, green trees, beautiful flowers, as well as the bugs and creatures that seem to appreciate the warmth and potential that Spring weather has to offer with it’s arrival will be my BERUBE-BUG for the remaining week of May and as the reply card for all cards received to this call for the month of June.

Let’s have fun!!!