Spring is here and we can’t wait to print our favorite plants and flowers. Some of my favorites are black-eyed Susan, iris, poppy, rose, and dandelion. Through the winter the produce market has been a haven of fruit and vegetable finds for printing. Scouring the aisles with a printer’s perspective we’ve zoned in on the appealing shapes and inner structures of broccoli, cabbage, mushrooms, peppers, walnuts, lemons, apples and pears. All of these print like a block or stamp when sliced in half. Herbs, carrot tops and turnip greens show us leafy possibilities. The curious textures of pineapple and cantaloupe rinds provide more printing patterns. And don’t forget bunches of celery and the vine sections from tomatoes-on-the-vine!

We may be anxious to make long-awaited images from the new growing season but as we wait for the oncoming wave of spring and summer, the produce market has kept us busy.