Featured Artist : Julie Hagen Bloch

Even though my major in college (back in the Pleistocene era) was painting, for the last 30-plus years, my main focus has been relief printmaking. Most of my work is on paper, but a few years ago a friend asked me to do some t-shirt designs for him, and that got me printing on fabric again (I'd done a little about 20 years ago, with smaller stamps that I'd carved from Staedtler Mars Grand erasers).  

I've been married to my husband David for 27 years, and we have two really sweet little dogs. What usually inspires me:  drawing, dreams, and deadlines!

All of the print blocks I use are Speedball's Speedy Cut blocks - the tan stuff, not the pink Speedy Carve. The printing inks are Fabrico, or VersaCraft (same product, different name), but the additional colors are from markers and crayons.

juliehaganbloch@hvc.rr.com