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Klaire Smith
@hillbillywoodcuts.bsky.social
artist, printmaker, Appalachian 🏳️‍🌈

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“Your Death, My life” (Mors Tua, Vita Mea)
3 panel Woodblock on muslin

This piece explores the complexities the ongoing opioid and overdose epidemic in Appalachia. May we all look closely, as corruption hides in plain sight.
#art #socialcommentary #printmaking
printing sounds for this little lino block 🌞 this one will also become a sticker

#linoblock #printmaking #artptocess #asmr
March 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I’m really digging this blue gold combination for the sticker design #woodcut #sticker #heathen
March 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
carving carving carving #printmkaing #woodcut #artprocess
March 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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March 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
A little morning editioning to start my weekend :) #printmaking #woodcut #art #appalchia #wowiactuallygotsomethingdonetoday
March 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I got some studio time in this morning AND cleaned up the house a little bit. All before 10 am. I don’t fire on all cylinders a lot right now but I’ll take it when I do
March 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Claricia, 13th-century German illuminator who included a self- portrait in a South German psalter, c. 1200...(perhaps giving an indication of her character!) #womensart
March 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I have been regretting my decision to delete my content from IG lately because I miss having that record of the past decade of work somewhere for people to see
March 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I think I want to add spoons to the second layer with the money signs #woodcut #printmaking #eattherich #redneck #appalchia
March 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I haven’t felt like sharing lately, I’m just angry or numb all the time. I feel like I am surrounded by idiots who all just live in their own bubble while the country falls.
February 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Flooding in Hyden, Leslie County, Kentucky
February 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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February 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."
- Galileo Galilei
February 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I want to make more work about the time we’re in, or protest posters for my friends. But when I get to my studio all I can bring myself to make is more landscapes. It’s hard to process the time we’re in and figure out how to speak to it.
February 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I’ll never not be impressed by my ability to sleep for 14+ hours after a migraine 😣 who else gets the auras with yours? What even helps?
February 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Just realized that I gained over 500 followers, so to celebrate I’ve decided to host a little #artshare!!!
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February 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I miss sharing my art online with friends I know in person, you all are great though
February 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
block and proof of ol’ toothless

#woodcut #blockprint #skull #printmaking #art
February 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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I am so, so tired. And I know you are, too.

Here's “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution, it became a hospital.
February 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Carving a little wooden cloud #woodcut #printmaking #asmr #artprocess #woodcarving
February 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Progress on today’s block #landscape #woodcut #printmaking
February 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I think I found a bunch of scraps of solid walnut planks. I wasn’t sure about how it would carve at first but if I watch the grain I can get some great marks #printmaking #woodblock #woodcut #clouds
February 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Do any #mural artists know anything about using acid to etch a sidewalk to prep it for paint?
#publicart #muralartist #painting #sidewalkmural
February 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Process pics of my most recent block. I don’t usually do it this way, but I wanted to get a better idea of what color blocks I would use so I painted the entire image with watercolors before carving. #woodblock #woodcut #printmaking #art #artprocess
February 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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February 9, 2025 at 4:58 AM