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Posts Tagged ‘printmaking’
Cold Rainy Day at the Press
I finally had a chance to spend a day making a mess in the print studio. I’m not sure what the results really are/were, the two big prints are hidden under cinderblocks in the drying press; unpacking them in a few days will likely be a surprise, as it often is. And, though it took a little while to get rolling, being at the press is always inspiring; at the very least I got a couple of fun snapshots of the mess I made!
Dunia Moja/One World:
A print exchange
I just finished updating the Peregrine Press website to include information about our upcoming show, and thought I’d finally describe my part in this project here as well. You can read a lot more about the project, and see some of the work at www.peregrinepress.com/zanzibar.html. To see the work, scroll down and click on any of the three pictures towards the bottom of that page.
The images included above (on this post) are pairs of before and after shots. Each participant created an edition of “base” prints that were sent to the other group to be completed by another artist. So moving clockwise starting top left above are: one of my base sheets that was sent to Zanzibar; the print completed by Fatma and sent back to Maine; one of my completed prints in which I worked on top of Rehema’s base print; and Rehema’s base print.
The project presented me with some serious challenges – not least of which was figuring out how to add to an already complete and beautiful print, while respecting what was there, but somehow adding my hand to it. In the end, it was a lot of fun, and in some ways opened up a new door for me in terms of imagery. I enjoyed working with all those swirly shapes that were in Rehema’s prints, and ended up making some plates based on blown up versions of her prints that I think I may continue to work with.
I encourage those of you who are local to check out the show. It will be up from the 1st of April through the 28th of May in the Lewis Gallery at the Portland Public Library. There is an opening reception on April 8th. And if you can’t get to the show itself, definitely check out the Peregrine Press website and scroll through the images. The work is really remarkable.
Letterpress 101
Letterpress and the art of persistence
I attended a great Letterpress workshop yesterday taught by David Wolfe. David is a terrific artist and printer, and his studio is full of extraordinary energy – maybe it’s all those really cool and diverse printing presses.
Letterpress printing is a type of printmaking that I have been interested in learning, and incorporating into my work for a long time. I had a blast yesterday and my head is spinning with ideas. For those of you unfamiliar with the process or term “letterpress” see the link above for a decent wikipedia explanation. The image at left is a detail of what I worked on in the workshop; the background print is a mat-board etching/collograph that I worked on a few days ago.
New prints
on the printmaking portfolio page
I finally got around to updating the printmaking portfolio page of my website with a few of the recent adventures in the printmaking studio. There are four new images from the series, as yet untitled, of matboard etchings on top of the written page. It’s been great fun returning to the process of printing etching plates. Something, I thought I’d forgotten how to do, but evidently all those hours spent in the Kirkland etching studio were enough to instill some kind of muscle memory.
Check ‘em out byclicking here!