COMMENTS updated May 25th, 2005

EMAIL: justapaulo<>aol.com

MESSAGE: Hi Mrs Arango, how are you? I just wanted to thank you again for the picture, it really meant a lot to me. Your work is hanging up in my room and you just inspire me to do better. Im going to take a printing class with Erik Larson at the Boulder city Art Center. Its gonna be alot of fun. Cant wait to come see your work again.

FROM: Nashville TN

EMAIL: jackieqb<>yahoo.com

MESSAGE: Hello My name is Jacolyn Wingo and I am a graduating senior at Tennessee State University. I was writing to you because I wanted you to know that your woodcut prints inspired some of my linoluem prints that I worked on this current semester. At the beginning of the semeter our instructor wanted us to look at different artists for inspiration and I happened to be looking on the internet and I seen some of your woodcuts. I don't know if you accept pictures from or correspond with people who email you, but if it is possible I would look to send you some pictures of the prints that I have made this semester. Jacolyn

www.yeahyeah31.com

"humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it's been sober
responsible and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and
immature."
tom robbins

"since everything is but an appartition, having nothing to do with good or
bad, acceptance or rejections, one may as well burst out in LAUGHTER!"
longchenpa

It is a joy to peruse your works - your inventiveness is a wonder.

FROM: McLean, VA

EMAIL: watersprite4<>hotmail.com

MESSAGE: Maria,

I saw your work at the Scottsdale Fine Arts Festival. I was definitely intrigued, but the heat and the overstimulation (colors! concepts! personalities!) that always come with such events made me uncommunicative. I jotted down your name and visited your website once I got home, and I am now officially nuts for your stuff! I don't know what it is about prints that attract me so much, but a really great print always seems to be able to cut right through all the layers of critical distance (necessary defense mechanisms, I think, when surrounded by so much sense-information in our multimedia world) that I've piled on and hit me dead center in what I can only describe as the "wow zone." The one that still haunts me, no matter how many times I've seen it or heard it discussed, is No. 43 in Goya's "Los Caprichos" series--el sueno de la razon produce monstros.

So anyway, your work has certainly hit home! Keep it up and, if it so pleases you, count me among your admirers!

Wanda

BTW-I hope you got my prints by now for the exchange.

Robin

from: Redondo Beach, CA - 90278

website: http://home.myprimus.com/~ken.ferrell

message: Hi Maria,
I just received your e-mail this evening. I would like to congratulate you on receiving the honorable art awards from the Nevada Governor that you truly deserve as you are really a great artist. I looked at the enlarged version of your six new images of Nevada scenery and they are really gorgeous. I feel honored that you chose some of my tree photos for some of your woodcuts. Your work should be inspiring to anyone interested in doing woodcuts or artistic work of Nature's beauty. Perhaps we will get together at some future time as I would like to see some of your work in person. Keep up the fine artistic work that you have become popular for and you will be more successful yet. Your friend in Nature's beauty.
Ken Ferrell

BUT
it's your prints girl-
they are fluid, evocative, descriptive yet immutable/ original in the extreme- i love them
really really good- and trees are what i print primarily.
i am travelling to sedona next week (the 8th through the 17th) are you showing anywhere near there in that time??? i would so like to meet up with you- catch up from Kansas City and buy one of those beautiful prints if possible-
lemme know- we leave on tues.
congratulations- i love what you've done within the maybe narrow theme of the state's requirements-- really beautiful work.
bobette

from: Ceiba, Puerto Rico

website: www.dianecutter.com

message: Hi, Maria... I'm always impressed with your work. Your website is such a great place that I keep sending WetCanvas printmakers your way. It's a wonderful education, especially with your newest commissioned project with the state of Nevada. I'm proud to have some of your work. Thanks for being so generous with your knowledge. You are a great inspiration for fledgling and experienced relief artists.

from: Ann Arbor, MI

website: www.sarahross.com

message: I really enjoyed seeing your work! I also appreciate how open you are about sharing your process for finding inspiration and ideas, and how you work. I am a fledgling printmaker, I love the quality of wood cuts and am slowly learning how to do them. Thanks for sharing your love of printmaking with others.

from: Sweden

message: What a page
i just needed something wonderful
to start my day

beautiful work

from: Saudi Arabia

message: Gracias...por tu increible trabajo, construyendo y dandonos toda esa informacion en el WEB, por un bellisimo y super profesional trabajo de grabado.
Y por dejarnos compartir algo de tu vida...

from: UK

message: hi maria i really love your website. i am 15 years old and came across your website when doing some art reseach as i had to look for an artist's work who related to mine. i am doing a lino print even though you do woodcuts. i really like your work and have chosen you as the artist whose work relates to mine as i am cutting leaves into lino. thankyou!

name: JJ Ruiz

from: Santa Fe, New Mexico

message: Thanks very much for the information you provide on your site. I am new to wood cut printing and am very exited to take my printing to new levels. Without having ever taken a class I am please with some of my results so far. The information on your site will be invaluable in helping me refine my methods.

from: Portland, Oregon

website: www.oregonlam.com

message: Maria has proved to be a quality person with a quality website. It's nice to know that people like this still exist in these hectic times.

from: 507 N. Greene Road, Goshen, In 46526

message: Maria
Thanks for showing me some of you work the other night at Don and Leta's. I sorry we didn't have more time. I am very impressed. I don't think that you are over paid. I am taking a few copies home to show Donna. We are currently having problems getting on line at the house. Thanks agian for the brief tour.

Steve

from: Tampa, Fl.

message: What a helpful and creative website!! Along with beautiful work too.
Especially enjoyed &quot;car print&quot; process.

name: Don Somppi

from: Portland Oregon

website: http://www.shelfexpressions.com

message: Great site and fine artwork. I have been doing Linocuts for years and always admire quality talent.
Don Somppi

Denise St George
e-mail manchestergal<>mfire.com
Location: Springfield, MAss. USA
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Beautiful work Maria. As an artist since an early age, with my love of detail I have decided to start doing some wood engravings. Where to start? Your website hasgiven me the much needed confidence that I CAN make it happen.
Thank you, and continued good success.

Paola Moreno

URL: http://www.cervantes.to
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I love this website. Is very much fun for me to look at it from the time to the time. Best greetings to all your visitors.

John C. Murray
e-mail johncmurray<>verizon.net
URL: http://mysite.verizon.net/vze7zjgh/
Location: Laurel, Maryland USA
Sat, July 17, 2004 23:04 Host: pool-70-17-75-58.res.east.verizon.net
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Maria- I have admired your web site off and on for quite some time. Your endless ambition and energy is an inspiration! Thanks for providing so much info on the techniques of woodblock and access to a myriad of resources elsewhere. This is incredibly helpful to this mostly self-taught printmaker. Your work is beautiful. Never stop! Keep going beyond your magic woodblock carving goal number.
Will you be coming to the Southern Graphics Council conference in Wash D.C. in 2005? If so, I would really enjoy meeting and talking with you. Our organization (Maryland Printmakers) will have a role participating in the conference.
My very best to you- John

Geert
e-mail G.Bergstra<>pers.vHall.nl
URL: http://studiocinqo.com/geertbergstra/
Location: Holland
Tue, July 6, 2004 09:31 Host: icon189_213.vhall.nl
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Hallo,

The engravings are beautifull, the lines are very powerfully drawn and express a a dynamic outlook.

glynis williamson
e-mail glynismwilliamson<>beeb.net
Location: london, UK
Sat, July 3, 2004 14:15 Host: anchor-beebcache-02.www.demon.net
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I have recently started out in printmaking and I was looking for technical information on the net when I came across your website.
Thank you so much for sharing your journey and all those tips that save others so much time.I love your work and find your passion for life and print utterly inspiring. Glyn Williamson.

BLR

Where are you from?
now in MA

Comments:
Maria, I found your website whilst doing a search for photopolymer techniques. Love your work plus your never-say-die attitude!

I am waiting for my hubby to finish my website, but it does have some of my prints on it, so please take a look.

ning

Where are you from?
bandung, indonesia

Comments:
i'm a student at an art institute majoring in printmaking. you may never heard of indonesia before, let alone knowing that printmaking is quite famous here, but you are popular among indonesian's printmakers.i'm going to give a brief introduction about you to fellow students so i stumble here in your wonderful site. Maria, i really think you're very talented, both technically and conceptual. i really admire your wood people series, they're truly speaks for themselves, i don't know how you did those, but you're giving those woodblock spirits. your works, they're moving. thank you for such beautiful art, and i'm willing to receive further info about you. thank you, visit us sometimes. we have wonderful deserts and rainforests.

multiplayer_poker

Where are you from?
New York

Comments:
You are my hero, I'm going to aim at half your
productivity. I forwarded your monster print diary to
my friend Frank, and I'm afraid the madness is
spreading!!

Carolee

Where are you from?
Palm Desert via NY, New England, N.C., Georgia, NYC, upstate NY, Seattle

Comments:
As a senior citizen, your "Last Leaf" print which I bought in La Quinta, CA captures the elegaic moods of a dwindling life. Do you know the story of the "Last Leaf"? A young painter in NYC is losing his lover due to illness. She says "I will die --when the last leaf falls from the tree outside my window". And all winter she lies in their garret, in bed, so ill, but looking out her window at the number of leaves dwindling on the tree. But she recovers to find out her lover had painted a leaf on the wall outside (that wouldn't fall, of course).

I also liked your "storyteller" picture - an excellent name for a well scoured tree that has seen many winds, rains and hot suns, and analagous to an older person's life.

These are the emotions your work evoked from me, tho' your intent may have been different. Indeed the ideas from your hands and mind are varied and fruitful, and touched me. Of all the art fairs and museums I have gone through in my life, I was glad to be introduced to your work. It was and is memorable.

emma

Where are you from?
bristol

Comments:
i liked following your instructions on how to clean up you made in more interesting to read i also had a good laugh as you put comments in like oops wrong recipe. i will look forward in reading some other stuff you have done. keep up the good work and humour.

Vivian deGeorges

Where are you from?
Hillsdale, NY (upstate)

Comments:
I found you by typing "woodcuts" in Yahoo. I love your work but the most important thing I learned is that I'm not the only artist who does, as I keep chiding myself, "more thinking and less doing" than she ought to! Except that you seem to have cured yourself of that pattern and I'm using you as inspiration to get down in my studio and make art! Thanks.
Vivian

Cathi Newlin

Where are you from?
Mercer, Mo!

Comments:
Just wanted to thank you!
I'm re-discovering wood cut printing again 20 years after taking it in college and, living in a rural area, there are really no resources for me to learn from.
Your website is my constant companion and main source of info as I teach myself, and I really appreciate all the work you've put into making resources and techniques available.

Thanks so much!

Jeanmarie

Where are you from?
US

Comments:
No se que decir...me encantaron...cada uno..y desmasiado. Gracias por compartir sus obras con nosotros. J.

Jeff

Where are you from?
USA, now in Texas

Comments:
Maria,
I just love looking at your woodcuts. They make me want to try to do some, but it is hard to get started. Maybe I should set a goal like you did, but start off with 10 instead of 1000! Also, your garden is beautiful! Another inspiration to get mine into shape! Thanks for keeping us informed about your progress--200! Keep on gouging! Ciao!

Faris

Where are you from?
Riyadh- Saudi Arabia

Comments:
Hello
Your work is really great

Sally

Where are you from?
Leeds- UK

Comments:
Hello- I am doing an Art degree at Bradford Uni near Leeds. I noticed your work not only because it is very good, but also because it is a bit like what I'm doing at the moment. Instead of using wood, I've found a really gorgeous shiny black card in the art shop. If I scrape the top layer away, the white underneath shows, which I can dye with ink- usually red or blue. Originally I took pictures of a naked figure and I was basing the images I created on the photos. I've dont a selection and I've made a box to put them all in. Good luck with future your future work.

Sally. 20

ray ray

Where are you from?
cowtown live in manitou springs co. now

Comments:
thanks . I found your site by looking up scroll saw tips.I am a paper art person. I am making some xmas stull now.Any art insperation is welcome.

MELA

Where are you from?
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA - GALICIA - SPAIN

Comments:
WE MET ABOUT EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO IN SAN CARLOS - CALIFORNIA AT MY AUNT'S HOME (MARIA HILLS, REMEMBER HER?).
YOUR AUNT LIA KEPT IN TOUCH AND, TALKING ABOUT THE FAMILY, TOLD ME ABOUT YOU AND YOUR WORK.
I'VE JUST SEEN THE WEBSITE, ONLY A QUICK SIGHT, BUT I LIKE IT VERY MUCH SO FAR.
I WILL KEEP ON VISITING FROM TIME TO TIME TO SEE YOUR WORK.
HOPE MY ENGLISH IS STILL "UNDERSTANDABLE" I HAVE NOT TALKED OR WROTE FOR A LONG TIME.
UN FUERTE ABRAZO DE LA QUE ESPERA SER UNA ADMIRADORA Y AMIGA, MELA.

kyra

Where are you from?
western australia

Comments:
hi there Maria i just read through your website and found that it was every interesting and that your work is great... anyway i better go now ok bye...

Steve

Where are you from?
Durham, New Hampshire

Comments:
I stumbled onto your site through a google search for scroll saw patterns.... don't ask me, I have no idea why your site came up. The page that came up (about cleaning up after printing) was fascinating and I couldn't stop reading until I finished the page. No, I really don't get enthralled about the process of cleaning up after a printing session.... but your writing style and sense of humor were wonderful. The pictures were beautiful..... and, as you can tell, I couldn't just leave your site without saying thank you. viva viva hasta pasta chica rica. Grins, Steve

phil thum

Where are you from?
utah

Comments:
unbelievable web site.. beyond the energy of pure light

John Mark Lavelle

Comments:
Maria,

I really enjoyed your home page, your art, and the delightful tour of the
Valley of Fire that you provided.

Next time I visit Las Vegas, I will drive there.

Best wishes,
John Mark Lavelle
Chief Marketing Communications Officer
PRE
jlavelle<>prexp.com

www.prexp.com/en

Japan Coordinator
Las Vegas International Marathon

Samra Thompson

Comments:
Hello Maria,

I'm so lucky to have stumbled across your website and found your beautiful
work. I've just recently, within the last month taken up doing some
linocuts, and I've had some minor success with it and impressed all my art
friends. I really enjoyed surfing your site and I've learned sooo much from
you, more so than in any book! I loved your sense of humor, and your
informative layouts.

I'd be honored to be included on your wall, so I'm attaching a jpg of my
first work,
I call it "Self Portrait With Sunflower". Its pretty crude, being my first
try, and if you deem it worthy I'd be so happy!

I checked out your library section and am happy to see there is a lot of
literature available out there that I had not been able to find before. I
had no idea that the print making community was so big! I think you should
write a book!

Thank you again for putting up such a beautiful and inpirational site.

Samra Thompson

Julio Valdez

Where are you from?
New York, NY

Comments:
Dear Maria,
Keep the heartfelt artwork. If you arecoming to NYC, you are welcome to visit
my studio. In the meantime, you can see some works at:
www.geocities.com/valdezj2000
Best wishes,
Julio Valdez

Doug

Comments:
Just for the record, through your wonderful site, you have inspired me to get back into printmaking. I have been screenprinting for over 20 years, but by and large it has been commercial work, with and occasional job to print for local artists. It is now my time to do the screeen printing and linocutting for myself. The woodcutting and other media still scare me, but as I visit your site, and see you using corian (I've used that for making plaques and awards, but you've gone a step further) the fears diminish.

Thanks again.

Doug

Juan

Where are you from?
from a little town in the North West of Spain- Galicia

Comments:
Hola,

Just to tell you that I have just seen your wonderful web-page, and that I think your art is very beautiful. I am an artist too, I do brush apinting. I have never done woodblock art before, but maybe some day I will try.

Best regards,
Juan

Andre Peloquin

Where are you from?
Calgary, Alberta Canada

Comments:
Hi!
I just got through a quick tour of your virtual gallery and wanted to write
a small note to express how wonderful I think your work is. The detail on
the woodcuts and the use of the grain of the wood (on everything, but
especially "Light Seekers" and "Oculus") really impressed and inspired me.
Congratulations on such fantastic work!

Bette Wappner

Comments:
Hi Maria

Just a quick note to tell you that you've done exquisite work on your "Life
of a Tree" series.

The boxwood that you got from Matsumura sound delicious to work on.

And of course your other work is fantastic too! I'm just a tree fan and the
work you've done with the human figures on them are beautifully done and
very creative.

You don't have to write back, I just wanted to tell you how cool they are!

Arye Saar

Where are you from?
Jordan Valley 15130 Israel

Comments:
Shalom Maria,
Today is my first time touring your site for a long time .
I have only few words to tell you: I'm truly your admirer
(That's ok - you are too old for me, i will be only 75 this
year). Love the way you handle the wood. And believe
me - i work with wood for over 60 years, and teaching
it for 20 years. You are a true wood Artist.
Love you&your work.
Arye

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Kibbutz Degania b

Carol G-W

Comments:
Dear Maria,

You are the last person who needs my advice! Your work is wonderful, and I for one, would like very much to see the books you will be making in the future.
I intend to visit often to see your prints.
Sincerely,

Ian

Comments:
I printed a large (4'x8') Birch Plywood block that was cut into smaller sections (none smaller than 24" square). I used Rives BFK to print the image, then reassembled the individual prints unto another sheet larger paper (the prints were glued to the larger sheet of paper using PVA). The larger sheet of paper was photo backdrop paper, which comes as large as 9' x 12 yards!

Email

Hello again !

The latin poet, Octavio Paz , is one of ny special favorites .
Your desert and figure desert pictures make me feel some
things just like Octavio makes me feel.
You lain characters are very mysterious and earthrooted.
This is good for me,
I am British and overly  unconnected.
Not certain  what I mean , exactly,
but I mean it nevertheless.
 Thanks for a terrific online gallery.

Oh yeah, I just remebered something unusual. Our former
Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau, used to visit Castro, a few times,
to discuss political Philosophy. He thought Fidel was a very interesting

philosophical intellectual,
even though Pierre didn't like the communist dictatorship.
This has always been a bone of contention for us canadians,
because we are also anti communist dictatorship. It's very strange to
remember this. I started thinking about this when I read your
biography about being form cuba.
You have led an interesting life.
Make lots more drawings.

sincerely,
Jim Brunswick

About a month ago I ordered a print from you (Alien) and I have been too
busy to email you to tell you how much I like it. I had been looking at it
online for about a year and finally got around to buying it. I have a small
collection (kind of, but I wouldn't refer to myself as a "collector")
woodcuts and linocuts by Latin American artists, and I'm surprised at how
hard it is to find them, even in Mexico. I just love "Alien"- the
combination of the traditional technique and the extremely contemporary
subject matter.
I also used to live in the Southwest and I miss it greatly and your work
brings back some images for me.

Thank you!

Lisa Bier

After this sad silence we all needed your glimpse of what we are
all about:
learning, teaching, printing, and having a friend to show us
how, sharing, being gentle, fair, and nice!

"thank you forever, Maria!"
Sharen

I wanted to write separately from the Australia list
to thank you for your kind words and gesture in
offering to take care of the fees. I won't argue - I
am too tired to argue - but I do thank you sincerely
and will repay the gesture one day in my own way.

I hope everything is OK with you. I love the idea of
1000 prints - are you making a mark on the wall every
time you finish one - like a prisoner crossing off the
days?

Very Best Wishes,

Andy

P.s. - I haven't changed my email address - this is
just the one I use to "park" the Print Australia mails

You and your site are amazing.  I found this site through the Print
Australia email group.  I really liked the concept of your 1000 woodcuts
quest, and your woodcuts are great!  As I followed links to the rest of the
site I was more and more amazed.  As someone new to the internet I found all
your advice for artists very helpfull.  Hope to send in my own application
to join your visiting artists gallery soon.  This is one site I can see
myself returning to often.
Thanks
Peter McLean,
Glen Innes,
Australia.

Nope, she's not just foolin' around. She may have trouble keeping that
wood from catching on fire as she's carving *so* fast.

Go Maria, go!

Wanda

How wonderfully nutty this project sounds....I'm sitting here laughing out loud with pure joy as I think of you and
your goal.....  sure hope" God is willing and that the creek don't rise "as I plan to see every one of them.

Barbara P.

Hang in there!

Michelle Morrell (baren member)

Wow, what an energetic print. Love the minimal colors and the movement is
great. Sometimes I look at my blocks after I have printed them and if it is
not a reduction block, it looks better than the print. I think I will put
them up side by side and end by end in my workroom. Would you ever sell a
block? I had someone wanting to buy one last year. I hate to deface the
block but I guess that is what we are supposed to do.
I read somewhere that you can carve your name or initials in the block, so
if someone, someday went to print it, the name or initials would be backward

So, how do you like carving on plank hard maple as opposed to....say 4'x
8' birch plywood?

As Graham would say: "You got it, kiddo!"

Wanda

Very nice, well drawn, nice line work, well carved, and printed. Is that
maple blocks for the color as well as the line block? Looks like it holds
fine lines a lot better than basswood. How was it to carve and clear all
that maple?

Jack

  You are my hero, I'm going to aim at half your
productivity.  I forwarded your monster print diary to
my friend Frank, and I'm afraid the madness is
spreading!!  He's got alot on his plate for the next
year, but I see car prints in his future.

It looks so cool!!  I wish I could see it in the
flesh.  But Texas is rather far for a poor teacher
saving to go back to Europe.

have fun!!!

christina

Terrific job on the megaprint, sure looked like fun.    Got an idea for
your next one.   Place two shallow ink wells just in front of the papered
block and when you drive up and over, it'll print a nice tire track border
on it.    You might even get a sponsor to help fund your print, like
Michelin, or Goodyear.    The possibilities are endless!   Nice job on the
web-page too.   Darn, you are talented!   Caesar's Palace, here you come!
 

Gary

Your roll-up is fantastic! Can't wait to see the red vinyl one.

Wanda

It was such a treat to get your dragon the other day.  Your work is
powerful and moving ... very special.  Receiving your print is like
meeting part of you, touching the vibrant person who has added so much
to the Baren Forum.  Thanks for sharing your work with me.

Lynita

Praise: Such a wonderful use of space and weird paper. Maria, where *do* you find these wonderful papers? The wood grain in this is super - the design is both realistic and ethereal. One of my favorites.

Julio

:-)   "Kathy Kieffner"   :-)
"boydresser"<>aol.com

"Maria"
Your web-site is beautiful.
Your art is beautiful also.
You will be famous very
soon.
Good luck to you.
I want to go to the gallery
on day with your Mom to
see everything.  Was going
to go the other day but
something came up for me so
it'll be another day maybe
next week.
Keep up the beautiful work.
Sincerely,
Kathy Kieffner

Wanda

Really liked the "Guardian."  The lines were really effective and made me
wonder if they were elaborated from the grain of one of the blocks, or what,
aside from outlining the figures.  Also saw a larger face in the lines, but
I always see faces in wood grain!

Very nice.

Michelle M.

I find the barter system to be a wonderful device!  Yes, I am very
interested in trading....

I particularly love the "100 miles" wood engraving and also the "Hija Del
Sol" woodcut.  Your work is breathtaking and so reasonably priced.  Since
you said you were fond of wolves, "Young Wolves" is probably the piece you
are interested in.  Going by the prices listed, would you be interested in
a swap of the two pieces that I mentioned for this etching?

Also, if you are interested in any others, we could continue to swap.  As I
said, I am a true fan of your work and the holidays are coming up.

I will be looking forward to hearing from you..............Judith
Also, I envy you your artic wolf mixes; at the present time, I have a
rescued retired racing greyhound.

You know, as I look at your site more and more, I keep asking myself
what is it about this web page that is different.  Turns out, it isn't
really different.  It is one of the best designed sites for art I have
seen.  Maybe I should get YOU to design Printhouse's site instead of the
dunderheads I am working with.

Just looked at Kim's work.  Wow, there is one talented lady.  Her
woodcuts are fantastic.  God, do I envy talent.  My favorite is
Ascension, perhaps because it is abstract but all of her work is
wonderful.

You are doing great young lady.  When next in Vegas the first TWO cups
of coffee are on me.  (Assuming I can break away from the poker tables
long enough.)

Cheers
Ray

Praise: This print has a lovely vibrating quality...everything that is touched by this sun is in movement, but a sort of "Brownian movement," a nervous fibrillation -- including the figure.  All of this pulsation contrasts well with the inertness of the black masses.  The short strokes of your cutting technique emphasizes this, making the viewer want to get up close, giving the whole a "plataresco" aspect...

You have some great ideas, and your site looks wonderful!

Wanda

Jim and I have been looking at your artwork and really enjoying it.  Jim
likes the rat
series.  He wants to see more of your gardens since he is a gardener
too!  Great work,
Maria, you are so very talented to be able to make your dream imagery a
reality
in your artwork.

Gayle Wohlken

Praise: Maria, Dave's scan doesn't do your print justice,
unfortunately.  I think yours was one of the best of
the bunch.  A wonderful brooding mood.

Comments: Bravo!

Praise: Great! Your do something special with your 'plein air' approach!

Suggestions: The chestnut shade for the paper is just 'a hair too dark' for comfort. But that may have been your purpose?

Comments: I'm inspired by your direct work on the block....haven't done that for a long time.

I think your website is very clearly set out and comprehensive.
Congratulations!

Anthea Boesenberg
Warringah Printmakers Studio,
Australia

Praise: Maria,
This is a very striking print and does indeed echo the spontaneity of a drawing done on the block on site--something very hard to retain in a woodblock print where there is just so much hard work involved in carving.   I was dumbfounded by the weight of the paper!   Do you dampen it first?   It's a print that drew me in slowly, starting with the sun and following the reflected light along the cliffs.   It wasn't until the second viewing that I discovered the woman in the water!   Many thanks!

Praise: Such a STRONG print. Reminds me of the way they do wood engraving , from dark to light.
The print is very moody. It almost reminds me of another planet. I like it very much.

Praise: Hi Maria,

Your print "Hija del Sol" is wonderful. When you posted the two new woodblocks on your site, I was rather torn in deciding just which one I hoped would be in the exchange. They are both beautiful. This one is so striking- a perfect blend of ink and paper.

Wanda

Praise: Looks like hot country to me, I like the way you used the paper as a strong color element in the work and the composition with the strong diagonal is really goood.

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Praise: A beautiful print, Maria,

Comments: This has nothing to do with the print--it has to do with how it translates on the Exchange #2 Exhibit.  Your print
in actuality is so much more beautiful than it appears.  Wouldn't you agree?
 
 

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