Art Out There

by Jen Anne, wood grain
printer & wood type cutter



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UPCOMING
Wood Type Cutting residency with the DeLittle Collection in York, UK



PROJECTED
'Traveling pantograph' guest lectures/demonstrations



ONGOING
Wood type manufacturing research and documentation



ONGOING
Art work featuring wood grain



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ART WORK CURRENTLY FOR SALE



'Radial Flower Print: Color Gradient Petals & Copper Center Overlay', $600



Monoprint relief print from wood carving with wax pastel overlay and copper print overlay. 15x15” paper size, 10x10” print impression size. Local delivery includes frame and glass shipped delivery is just the print.

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After deciding against doing Really Big Prints 2025, I still had the itch to carve I took it out on a pre-fab 10” wood round from Menard’s.
Even though I produced prints from the carving using only hand-burnishing or brayering, its low-grade materials naturally started to chip.



I made a limited run of full-size single-impression prints and full-size multiple-impression prints. I also made a mask for inking just the center, and made a limited run of single-impression center-only prints, and multiple-impression center-only prints.



The print for sale is the only one of its kind, printed in navy blue ink (left over after Malley’s in Two Rivers closed!) on Neenah Royal paper, and overlaid by color gradients using water-soluble wax pastels.



By the time of this print, I had worked with the water-soluble wax pastels for about two years, developing different methods for saturation and blending from one color to another.



The overlay is one of the center-only prints made with a mask, using copper ink also from Malley’s, printed on Borden & Riley’s Denril 3.5-mil vellum (discontinued in 2021—BOO!!!).



I am now painting the surface and sides to give to a friend who will hang the piece on his wall.



'Arboretum Prairie Burn', $450



Monoprint with sewn-on honey locust tree stems, mounted on handmade paper 16x20” unframed needs a shadow-box style frame due to the tree stems being thicker than the rest of the surface.

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I made this piece in the twilight of years after graduating from art school and having to re-figure all my methods of producing art away from the spaces and tools I’d had at school. The center is a monoprint I did these in my “spare bedroom” studio with water-based ink and leaves cut from fake plants. (Real leaves had a very short life, and only did well on certain papers.) The print is on mulberry paper.


I found the print not interesting enough by itself. I’d had the practice of gathering “organic shed” while walking: leaves, pods, nut shells, and the like. I had stems from leafed-out honey locust trees first the many oval golden leaves would drop, and later in the season, the stems that had held them would follow.


I wanted the stems to be dancing across the surface of the print, and glue with its stiffness seemed counterintuitive to use, so I opted to sew the stems on with fine monofilament thread.



And because the stems needed to dance beyond the boundaries of the print, I used yet another sheet of handmade paper with plant inclusions.



I had on hand, left over from grad school purchases, a very thick hand-made red paper purchased from a campus art store (as were the other papers in this piece).



I called it “the triscuit” because of its weave and heft, and since it was perfect as a backdrop to the print with its dancing stems, I was willing to sacrifice some of it for this piece.



The rich brown back-backdrop is a curious flocked paper that is soft like a flat velvet.



'Woodgrain Sunset:
Yellow-Pink', $150



Wood grain pressure-printed on Denril vellum with marker on front and back 11x14” framed 2026

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Along my journey of printing different pieces of wood, I usually have a 'main run' of paper plus a few sheets of odd stuff that I'm not sure will work. This print was done on Denril 3.5-mil vellum, which I learned was discontinued in 2021 (cry-face emoji!). I like its weight and semi-frosty transparency.



I intermittently experiment with mark-making on both sides of paper with at least some transparency, and this was one occasion: the Denril took marker--and on both sides--much better than I had anticipated, with no puddling of color or rippling of paper.



'Woodgrain Sunset: Pink with Green Grass', $125



Wood grain pressure-printed on tracing paper with marker overlay 13x14” 2026

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This was printed from the same block and with the same ink as the 'Yellow-Pink' piece, but on a thinner paper that is more paper-y and less slick than the Denril.



The paper soaked up the markers a bit more than the Denril had, making them appear darker and more intense to my eye.



SOLD ART WORK



'Purple Sage Twilight'



Litho print with wax pastel 14x20” framed 2025


I made many of these prints from a paper litho plate in a technique I learned from Berel Lutsky. This is the first of those prints that I "worked" with a different material.



Somehow I discovered that using a rag to wipe the wax pastel gave me different effects, and I kept a record of various looks resulting from different fabrics and moisture.



After figuring out how to achieve the degree of scratchiness I wanted, I applied it to this print with certain wax pastel colors.



'Woodgrain Rainbow Bird'



Pressure-printed wood grain with wax pastel overlay 5x7” 2026


I found this board on Red Arrow Beach in 2019 near my first Manitowoc apartment. The size of the knot was perfect for printing a cute lil' bird, especially given the 1x3" size of the commercially-milled board.



These wax pastels have become a staple of my art practice, and the possibility of color combinations is both endless and a bit daunting! I used 13 separate colors for 'Woodgrain Rainbow Bird'.



Woodgrain Rainbow Bird has become an avatar of sorts for my latest round of branding! Digitally, he gets up to a ton of fun.





See You Out There!