Bill Ritchie Artworks in the

Clare Livingston Collection

1978. Hasty Bridge at Sunrise. Woodblock, monoprint with hand-coloring. Black, pink, yellow image 8 1/2 X 5 in on 10 1/2 X 6 1/2 tan "antique" Asian paper. Unnumbered. Signed lower right. Framed in collector, gilt frame.

Artist's statement: I "play" with woodblocks and watercolor. The Asian block-printing technique invites this. Also known as "sosaku hanga" it is the range of printing processes that use water base inks instead of the western oil base. When I painted the pink color in the bottom, I could not help but remember the drink, Tequila Sunrise.

2000. Loop da Loo #08060700 Pencil, ballpoint, ink, woodcut. Blue, black on white. Image bleeds to edge of 8 1/2" x 11" Asian paper and notebook filler with hand-inked Mylar. Signed lower right.

Artist's statement: These are actual pages from my August, 2000 journal. The handwriting is my entry on August 7-8, 2000. I was making sketches for a calendar based on the life of Elmer Gates. With each sketch, I?d think, ?How nice it would be if I had a color woodblock so I could play with the spaces in between!?-- what people call ?negative spaces?. I thought if I could make a woodcut to color those spaces in, it would have a positive effect.

ArtistStamp versions, made in 2003