If you tilt your head just right, it looks like a water-filled tunnel. Or you could be normal and see tree rings like everyone else. Beautiful work either way :3.
Being a printmaker myself, I can understand why it’s expensive. It’s basically a woodcut relief print, hand-inked and hand-printed. Like any woodcut (and most non-commercial printmaking) each print is slightly different and therefore unique. It’s a very time-consuming method of printing. Also, from reading a bit of the comments on the linked site, the size of the edition is pretty small. 12 were printed. This means that no other prints can be pulled from that particular stump. They either destroyed the stump or would have to alter it. If they do pull another edition from that same stump, they would have to name the edition differently so that people would know that it’s not the same as the first one.
I’d like to try this on a few small stumps I have in my yard. Could anyone give me a few tips on how to pull it off(I don’t know a lot about printmaking). There are photos online of Mr. Gill using some sort of power tool on the stump. Any idea what exactly he’s doing? Any replys would be apprecaited. Thanks.
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Besides swissmiss, Tina founded and runs TeuxDeux, CreativeMornings and her Brooklyn based co-working community Friends Work Here. (She also started Tattly which was recently adopted by BIC)
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Yikes! Incredibly cool, but quite a pretty penny to order just a lithograph of it. I’ll just make my own… =)
Apr 9th, 2009 / 4:01 pm
If you tilt your head just right, it looks like a water-filled tunnel. Or you could be normal and see tree rings like everyone else. Beautiful work either way :3.
Apr 9th, 2009 / 4:08 pm
oh wow. I totally see the tunnel….or maybe I’m lost in a sewer pipe?…
Apr 9th, 2009 / 4:11 pm
I’ve got a tree stump in my front garden – but would the neighbours think I was mad if they saw me doing this?
Apr 9th, 2009 / 4:25 pm
Emma, stop caring for what your neighbours think ; )
Apr 9th, 2009 / 5:04 pm
amazing, but 4k for it, no thanks.
I understand the cost of concept in art etc, and being an artist myself i see that. But you gotta be crazy to charge $4000 for that.
Apr 9th, 2009 / 5:15 pm
Being a printmaker myself, I can understand why it’s expensive. It’s basically a woodcut relief print, hand-inked and hand-printed. Like any woodcut (and most non-commercial printmaking) each print is slightly different and therefore unique. It’s a very time-consuming method of printing. Also, from reading a bit of the comments on the linked site, the size of the edition is pretty small. 12 were printed. This means that no other prints can be pulled from that particular stump. They either destroyed the stump or would have to alter it. If they do pull another edition from that same stump, they would have to name the edition differently so that people would know that it’s not the same as the first one.
Apr 9th, 2009 / 6:02 pm
i love it. that’s incredibly gorgeous.
Apr 10th, 2009 / 1:55 am
i luv the idea for this. it makes me want to pick up some printmakers ink and do something similar the next time i visit canada
Apr 10th, 2009 / 12:23 pm
Wow!
Apr 10th, 2009 / 2:18 pm
That is cool. I’d like one hanging on my wall too.
Apr 10th, 2009 / 9:38 pm
apparently they did this using washi paper and japanese sumi ink
Apr 11th, 2009 / 4:26 am
Ö
Apr 12th, 2009 / 5:45 am
yes. me too. I’d love one of these.
Apr 13th, 2009 / 2:11 pm
I’d like to try this on a few small stumps I have in my yard. Could anyone give me a few tips on how to pull it off(I don’t know a lot about printmaking). There are photos online of Mr. Gill using some sort of power tool on the stump. Any idea what exactly he’s doing? Any replys would be apprecaited. Thanks.
Apr 25th, 2009 / 11:25 am
What a wonderful thing…
Jun 3rd, 2009 / 5:49 am
precious! i want to marry it. actually, it would look good with a ring on its tree stump finger! xx
Jan 20th, 2011 / 8:12 am
so our wedding was great, thanks for asking!!!! we had honeymoon-tree-babies ;)
Jan 19th, 2012 / 7:06 am
so me and this tree printing are still together. going strong. eternally faithful. my babes.
Feb 11th, 2014 / 9:34 am