What’s up with that? My “chop”
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
You may have noticed (or maybe not!) a watermark on many of my pieces of work. And maybe (again, maybe not) you’ve wondered what the heck it is.
A few months ago, I took a weekend workshop on printmaking using a hand drill on woodblocks to create imagery. The instructor, master printmaker Steve Prince, showed us a lot of his work, and the pieces included a stamp of something he called a “chop”: essentially, a graphic signature. This got me thinking and I decided to work up my own and apply it as a watermark for digital versions of my work. (more…)