I’m in a green phase. Green has never been my favorite color. But I can honestly tell you, I am really enjoying it in my printing lately. 💚

This is a third version of my new linocut art print of a gardener’s hand. This time I used sage ink on an Indian cotton rag paper. #linocut #blockprint

Yesterday’s linocut printing went very well. I printed my new hand design on beautiful sage green Lakota paper, and creamy white Stonehenge. And I have one more color combination planned.
#linocut #blockprint #printmaking #art

I am on a mini vacation with my husband. Yesterday we went to Ashland Oregon for the day, and walked through Lithia Park. Oh my, such a beautiful place, especially with all the colors of Autumn.

Throw back video to printing my linocut art print, Summer Breeze. I printed this with two different colored backgrounds, copper and green. I hope you enjoy watching. Let me know if you have any questions.
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#printmaking #linocut #catart #catlover

PRINT SPECIAL in my online shop starting today through Sunday. All prints are 20% Off using the code FALLSALE20 at checkout. This includes my giclee prints.

Collages are marked down too. Prices range from $50-$100. ***The discount code is not good on the collages.
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Testing out a few more leaf stamps. The stamps are my own design, carved into Speedy Carve by Speedball, and the inks I am testing on my fabric are Caligo Safewash inks.

So the plan for all of these stamps that I am carving is to create some products for winter, tote bags, aprons, tea towels.

Finished carving my fern leaf stamp on Friday, and got to roll out some ink and test it on fabric yesterday. It printed up nicely.

I purchased some colors of Speedball’s fabric block printing ink. That just came in yesterday. Looking forward to trying them out soon.
#blockprinting

Transferring a design to Speedy Carve.

This is my next rubber stamp. I’m using Speedy Carve block material and a bone folder, you could use the back of a spoon.

I like to do my drawings on tracing paper. I used a soft lead pencil, flipped my drawing over onto the block, and rub.
#printmaking

Spent Saturday afternoon hanging my art show at the @redwoodartassociation, in upstairs gallery #3. I’m really pleased with how it all turned out. There are 18 linocut prints, and 2 mixed media collages.

The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 5pm. 😊

All set up and ready for visitors today. This is the first day of the North Coast Open Studios. If you live in my local area, I hope you will stop by. Open Studios hours are 10am to 5pm. Let me know if you need my address.

#northcoastopenstudios #ncos2025 #humboldtcountyartist #artistsofhumboldt

“In the Garden” my NEW kitty linocut art print is now complete and dry and available on my website. 😊 I also reprinted two linocuts that I was out of, “Leaping” and “Sleeping.”

A beautiful black cat takes a BIG stretch in a garden of daffodils. For more info www.maryanntestagrossaart.com
#cat #art

I finally finished printing my latest linocut art print yesterday. Here is a video of the process. This print will be available tomorrow for purchase.

I call this one, “In the Garden.” A beautiful black cat takes a BIG stretch in a garden of full of daffodil flowers.
#linocut #art #printmaking

Yesterday’s printing went very well. I call this print, “Sleeping.” Three kitties, curled up in different positions, taking a nap, stacked one on top of the other.

I set up a PreOrder on my website if you would like to purchase one now. They will ship as soon as they dry.
#printmaking #linocut