New Wood Engravings for The Smell of Other People’s Houses

Raven in Snow

Muskeg in the Fall

Bluebells in a Whiskey Bottle

Spring Stars

Poulson wood engraving Summer Sunset Troller

Poulson engraving Opheim Skiff

Kachemak Bay T-shirt Design

My pal Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock recently published a young adult novel, The Smell of Other People’s Houses. It’s good! She has a really nice touch, it’s super well done, and gets some of that flavor of growing up in Alaska in the 1970s and 80s, which might be kind of like growing up in a lot of rural places in that era. It’s authentic without trying too hard. I read a lot of young adult novels, reading to my kids at night, and skimming things my kids bring home, and this is the cream. It’s a good book by any standard, a real gem.

Anyway her publisher, Random House/Penguin/Dell commissioned me to make pictures for the “part titles” for the four sections of the book, and a picture for the title page.

This was last summer, and the Kachemak Bay Wooden Boat Society commissioned me to make a t-shirt design for the Wooden Boat Festival, for which I did a wood engraving of an Opheim Skiff.

All these wood engravings are available as prints, hand-printed from the block on a vintage 1929 hand-cranked proofing press.

They are all cut from 3″ x 4″ blocks, some of them, like the flowers and the skiff, on the diagonal.

They are $30 each, and can be ordered thru my website www.theoutercoast.com, or send me a message thru this blog, or FaceBook (Rebecca Poulson).