I acquired a few new pieces over the course of this year from artist Valerie Lueth who founded and owns the Tugboat Printshop. I always enjoy the pictures Valerie puts on her site of the process that goes into making her prints. It looks to be a very painstaking process carving each color’s wood block, and I have always admired the mental process that must be required to deconstruct the image to create the various blocks of wood that go into the print. I am very happy to have nine pieces from the Tugboat Printshop in my collection and my brother was the recipient of another piece.

And I was even sent this freebie as a thank you!