All of the relief prints listed here were hand cut out from a soft matrix adhered to Masonite to form long narrow paper panels which are folded at the the top to allow them to hang from a bar. After hand printing some images were given another color using painting as is the case with The Red Shoes and The Bad Bargain.

Each print is an interpretation of an old fable or story. They read from top to bottom and left to right.

The ancient and most graphic quality of the relief print complements these very graphic stories which were often told in dramatic fashion in order to get across important messages about human efforts and the sometimes bad decisions we make and the consequences.

The last three images are panels I'm cutting for a big print called Half Chick. It's from a Spanish Folk Tale. One partially cut panel has my very high tech material and tool alongside. Of course the words will be right way around when printed.

The chick was born with only one leg and one wing but all the same he's rebellious and ungrateful and runs away from home. He refuses to help Water, Fire or Wind so he ends up in Hot Water. But Wind whisks him out of the pot and places him on a steeple to be a weather vane where he is at the mercy of the Wind ever after.