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artist, printmaker, Appalachian 🏳️‍🌈 let’s trade prints bio.site/klairesmith
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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.

Flooding in Hyden, Leslie County, Kentucky

Bow Down-work in progress. #aprilawakening #ohioartist #protestart #mixedmedia #painting

"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

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.

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?

Just realized that I gained over 500 followers, so to celebrate I’ve decided to host a little #artshare!!! ✨ Share this post for visibility! ✨ Share your art! ✨ Interact with others! ✨Tag your friends! ✨No A/I/ or N/F/T

I miss sharing my art online with friends I know in person, you all are great though

block and proof of ol’ toothless #woodcut #blockprint #skull #printmaking #art

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.

Carving a little wooden cloud #woodcut #printmaking #asmr #artprocess #woodcarving

Progress on today’s block #landscape #woodcut #printmaking

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

Do any #mural artists know anything about using acid to etch a sidewalk to prep it for paint? #publicart #muralartist #painting #sidewalkmural

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

Paul Nash 'Landscape of the Megaliths',1937

The up side of having to spend all weekend organizing the garage is realizing you’ve been sitting on perfect wood for making frames this whole time. I can’t wait to have my own shadow frames so I stop having to glue foam core strips to space the mat away from the glass. #art #framing #nicheaf

EYEMASTER / Woodcut / 2020 45cm x 60cm Edition of nine prints Still available in my Etsy-Shop __________ #druckgrafik #printmaking #illustration #drawing #woodblock #woodprint #woodcut #holzschnitt #carnivorousplant #eye #limitededition

A street artist in DC is putting up these posters all over the city. I’d love to get one.

hard not to feel like there’s just a bunch of doofuses tearing copper out of the walls of the house we’re all collectively still living in huh

this little house 🤌 ugh I love it

i like being an artist because i have a lot of stupid ideas. then i can turn them into reality and inflict them on everyone else

“Justice”, a #linocut I made a number of years ago, recently came to mind. #printmaking #arepublicifyoucankeepit

STOP THE COUP!

Sometimes I buy frames from the thrift store for my little skulls (complete with the tiniest mat I have ever cut) From the archives because I’m teaching watercolor this week and it’s consuming all of my energy. The kids keep asking when we’re going to use “real paint” 🙃 #printmaking #artteacher

Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.

I forgot I had started this block, I guess there’s no better time like right now to keep working on it. #woodcut #printmaking #art #america

You know, it’s all much, much worse, and far more absurd than I could possibly have imagined.