BIRCH SPIRIT woodblock print

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Moku hanga Japanese method.
Print title: "Birch Spirit".
Paper size: 6.5" x 15";
Blocks: Birch plywood.
Paper: Japanese handmade Washi- Masa Dosa.
Inks: Black - neri zumi
and Guerra pigment dispersion.
Fine mica powder mixed into inks.
Hand-rubbed with Murasaki baren.

Tanka poem handwritten on print:

Lady of the woods
a beacon to the stream
this white birch tree--
her parchment bark poems
float into opal twilight.

Bette Norcross Wappner (b'oki)

2009 NEW YEAR'S PRINT

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--Blocks: Poplar plank.
--Print paper size: 4" x 6"
--Paper: Japanese shin-torinoko.
--2 color ink: black neri-zumi (concentrated sumi-e) and silver metallic water-based ink.
--Fine mica powder mixed into both inks.
--Non-edition: 53 prints

Haiku:

Venus and Luna
press into the ink-black woods
first poem print

Bette Norcross Wappner (b'oki)