American artists Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth have been working together for eight years. Pittsburgh team of artists are known as Tugboat Printshop, specializing in woodcut fine art print editions of beautiful landscapes. To make the woodcut prints, the artists carve their images (drawn by just the two of them) in low relief on blocks of birch plywood. After the blocks have been carved, they are rolled up with ink and printed onto archival fine paper to create the finished artworks. Paper is placed on the inky woodcut surface and the paper & block are sent together through the press. The prints are authentic, handmade start-to-finish. The woodblock is used to make limited edition color prints. The creative artists hope that their woodcuts will provide pleasure, inspiration, and new ways of thinking about the world.

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