Studio Orch

Ellen Orchard runs Studio Orch, an illustration and print studio based in Waco, TX focused on minimal and handmade design.

Ellen Orchard runs Studio Orch, an illustration and print studio based in Waco, Texas focused on minimal and handmade design.

As a landscape architect by day, she is inspired by the botanical and natural world, city views and her studio assistant chihuahua, Ichabod. She has a love for simple and handmade art and designs prints through both digital illustration and block printing methods. She creates a variety of linocut relief prints that she draws, carves out of linoleum, and prints by hand with oil based inks. Her notecards are handmade with the same block printing process on Kraft-tone paper that she cuts and scores from scratch. This printing process makes each note card unique gifts by hand or mail and are frameable art in their own right. Ellen loves block printing because of the tangible feel of the medium and the unpredictable end result. She loves to see her art on the walls of people she loves.