Block Printing Every Day

05 Thursday Feb 2026

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in 365 Days of Block Printing, Art

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Art, Art Journal, block design, block print, block printing, block prints, blue art, blue block prints, blue botanical prints, collage, colorful, Colorful art, colorful block prints, golden geometry, Mandala, mixed-media, Torus Mandala, Zentangle, Zentangle Inspired Art, ZIA

So this is my goal for 2026. It is an ambitious one but I’m going to be gentle with myself about it. It is aspirational but I got a great start in January!

I’m having lots of fun exploring the blocks I carved in December and older blocks as well. I have even carved a few new ones, some of them inspired by the Zentangle Fragments of Your Imagination January challenge. I love to use Zentangle patterns as inspiration for my blocks. This one is my favorite.

I used a block printed mandala using some of these Zentangle fragment blocks as the pattern for a screen printing class I took at Polka Press and here’s some napkins and tshirts that are the result!

I printed a cover for the paper bag art journal I used to capture my Carve December work.

Here are individual photos of some of my favorites.

Making art is a form of self care for me. I think it is also a form of resistance against evils such as fascism. I’m surrounding Minneapolis with Love & Love & Love. Let’s make something beautiful today.

Carve December Interrupted

26 Thursday Dec 2024

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art

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block print, carve december, golden geometry, golden spiral, handcarved blocks, handcarved stamps, Mandala

I got a great start to Carve December. It is a stamp carving challenge on Instagram hosted by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer that I have participated in for years. I completed a set of blocks to make different arrangements of a golden spiral and some mandalas that can be made of some of the pieces.

I have also completed some squares, leaves and flowers from my usual body of work and a few more golden geometry pieces. However, I had surgery on my neck and it is preventing me from carving or doing much art at the moment. I have one more block that I hope to carve before the end of the month, but healing is taking precedence. Meanwhile, enjoy the prints of what I have done so far.