Polly Perkins

My Fishkill Farm plein aire watercolor inspires a new woodblock...
#farmart #woodblock #landscapeprint

Printing the second block this lovely Sunday morning... The rough grainy wood is a knotty pine plank, from a 1950s summer house that once stood by the beach in Ocean City NJ.
#woodblockprint #printmakingprocess #printmakersofinstagram #knottypine #woods #fallentree #woodgrain

Proofing my big woodblock for RollOut Beacon, which willbe printed with steamroller Oct18. For this first inkibg I'm using teabag paper, inexpensive and strong, yet thin enough to easily print by hand with a baren.
#woodblock #printmaking #BeaconNY

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Finished carving my woodblock for RollOut Beacon, a steamroller event October 17 @TheYard in Beacon NY Ready to ink up and proof! #woodblockprint #printmaking #HudsonValleyNY

Swallowtail on Joe Pye... So pretty!
#joepye #nativegarden #butterflygarden

Plein air painting @FishkillFarms recently. Love the new Windsor Newton tube watercolors I got for the event; so intense and fun to use!
#watercolor #pleinair #hudsonvalleyartists

Mini woodblock of a Dorset sheep, with impressive horns. By special request for a future wool festival in NY.
#sheep

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My sweet nuthatch is included in the Beacon Open Studio Group Show at Hudson Beach Glass Gallery.
#hudsonvalleyart #nuthatch #birdartist #woodblockprint #beaconny #pollysstudio

A great art weekend with Beacon Open Studios, including my woodblock prints and collages @TheYard.

Printing a mini woodblock

A new mini warbler woodblock print in the works... #pollysstudio #printsky #woodblockprint #warbler

Rolling out spring green #pollysstudio #woodblockprint #springgreen #green

Woodblock work in progress... Background color and birds in branches
#printsky #woodblockprints #hudsonvalleyartist

Lute concert at Beacon Music Factory, with Richard Kolb. Love these small venues where I can sit close and sketch. Also best way to hear this lovely music.
#lutes #Baroque #BeaconNY

Drawing Mario at The Yard in Beacon NY. Inspiring model and good practice.
#livemodeldrawing #hudsonvalleyart #beaconny #figuredrawings #sketching #charcoaldrawings @openstudios_beacon

Little nuthatch reduction woodblock gets her final black cap. I'm glad it's finished, because now springtime colors are calling me...
#printsky #hudsonvalleyart #woodblockprints #nuthatch

Check out the subtle texture of MDF and its contrast with the woodgrain. Nuthatch woodblock work in progress.
#printsky #woodblock #mdf #nuthatch #workinprogress

Drawing outside at Stonecrop Gardens
#sketching #hudsonvalleygardens

Started another version of this mini woodblock print, in summer and fall colors.
#skyprint #miniprint #printmaking

Managing large scale prints in a small studio! BigInk woodblock ink is dry, so I'm signing and trimming margins on edition of 3.
#printsky #bigink #artistslife #printmaking

For #printpromptmonday leafy prompt, "TreeHouse/Duplex", a collage constructed from several of my woodblock prints.
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Rolling at BigInk workshop yesterday, printing my large woodblock "Sticking Place" at the wonderful printmaking studios of Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk CT.
#printsky #BigInkPrints #woodblock

Flash of color for the final layer of my "Hillside" woodblock print edition. #printsky #woodblock #hudsonvalleyart

Mentally I'm about a month ahead of my garden... It's 60 today but the ground is still mostly frozen deep down. Bought some wee bulbs but left them outside and the flowers froze. Half frozen mud cakes my shoes.
#gardening #HudsonValley #spring

Mini iris woodblock
#printsky #woodblockprint #hudsonvalleyart #miniprint

Love how the color and black work together. Wonderful♥️

Spring is on the way and so is this mini iris woodblock.
#skyprint #woodblock #miniprint #workinprogress