Psalm 8, a teaser

O.K., I haven't had time to print this yet, but thought I would at least show you the block:

Psalm 7, another favorite

I like the imagery of this Psalm. It came to me on a visit to Washington, DC., with my wife and daughter. The idea of justice, in all its forms and functions, was being illustrated by the sites I saw.
I really liked the way the sky turned out, I used a dremmel again to poke holes in the lino-block.
This is also the first time I experimented with the white line concept in the building.



This was my longest Psalm yet, calligraphy wise, and took a good deal of time and practice to get the spacing and layout correct. Below are the decorative capital and a sample of the text.

I switched from the calligraphy marker to a calligraphy pen that had different nibs, then had to write out the Psalm two or three times to get the spacing right:



Just in case you didn't know, you
can click on any image and see
the enlargement.






I really like the bottom image, one of my favorites so far-







And here is the final image. Love to hear the comments!

This is as far as I have gotten with completed prints, I have the blocks carved for Psalm 8 and Psalm 9, still fighting in my head with the image for the woodblock (I've got 6 cherry blocks cut to the size I need!) for Psalm 10.
Funny thing is, I am biting at the bit to get to Psalm 11, I already have the image in my head all planned out.

Psalm 6, my favorite so far

I'm tired today, so I will just post images with little talk: I used myself this time as the model and borrowed slightly from the book of Kells again for the illumination, with some minor changes of course to fit my idea.


























And of course, the final image: