**Provincetown Printers

     The Provincetown Printers were an art colony established in Provincetown, MA in the early 1900's. They developed a unique way of making multi-color woodcut prints with one block instead of several as in Japanese printmaking. The white line woodcut is widely considered the sole American woodcut technique. Early white line woodcut artists include Blanche Lazzell, Julius Olsson Nordfeldt, Ethel Mars, and Edna Boies Hopkins.
     To make a print, an outline of a drawing is carved into a block of wood. Paper is taped or thumb tacked onto the block so it will not move when printing. One area of the block at a time is painted with watercolor and then hand-burnished onto the paper with a spoon or baren while the paint is still wet. I repeat this process until the entire block is printed and continue to add layers until I achieve the depth and vibrant colors of my prints. Depending on size, each print takes several hours to several days to create.
     Only 10 prints are hand printed from each wood block, and then I retire the plate, making these prints a unique limited edition.

  **IMPORTANT: Since each print from a block is hand painted and hand printed, there will be variations in the color and texture of each print. This is called a Varied Edition or V.E.