#flickers

A Relief-Print Feathursday

A woodcut, wood engraving, and several linocuts by Spokane, Washington printer and printmaker W. Gale Mueller (1927-2018) from his Forty Years of Birds 'n Blocks, printed from the original blocks at his Millstone Press in 2009 in an edition of 53 copies. From 1969 to 2009, Mueller and his wife Bonnie sent holiday cards with Gale's original bird prints using several relief print processes. Today we show a few prints from the early years, along with the title page featuring a 2005 wood engraving, a technique Mueller came to prefer after 1986.

Our copy of this book is a gift from our friend Tony Drehfal.

Happy Feathursday!

Photo: Jerry McFarland

"This brown woodpecker flashes bright colors under the wings and tail when it flies. Its ringing calls and short bursts of drumming can be heard in spring almost throughout North America. Two very different-looking forms -- Yellow-shafted Flicker in the east and north, and Red-shafted Flicker in the west -- were once considered separate species. They interbreed wherever their ranges come in contact. On the western Great Plains, there is a broad zone where all the flickers are intergrades between Red-shafted and Yellow-shafted."

First band I though of was Cleopatrick, the music sounds exactly how I imagined them sound like, but Luke sounds too old for my tastes (I mean, for how Sam would sound), but then I thought about Nothing but Thieves and it gives me strong vibes, so for now I think that would be my choice.

Also, Connor is a sweetheart, just as Sam is.