July 23, 2010
Mabel Hewit (1903 - 1984)
Posted by Julio
Cleveland artist Mabel Hewit, whose work is the subject of a delightful summer/fall exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Born in Conneaut in 1903 and raised in Youngstown, Hewit, who died in 1984, spent the last 50 years of her life in Cleveland and Parma, where she produced dozens of colorful prints redolent of small-town and city life during the Great Depression and the decades that followed.
Hewit learned from West Virginia native Blanche Lazzell, a leading practitioner of white-line woodcut technique, who gave instruction in her studio in Provincetown, Mass., during the 1930s. The exhibition's catalog, which presents original research by Jane Glaubinger, the show's organizer and curator of prints, states that Hewit must have studied with Lazzell in 1929, when she visited Cape Cod to attend a class in outdoor painting sponsored by Teachers College, or in the summer of 1933. Judging from a 1934 color woodcut, in which Hewit closely emulated a similar work by Lazzell, the latter's influence was profound and lasting.
For the complete article see: http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2010/07/hewit.html
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June 27, 2010
Letterpress Printing - FILMS
Posted by Julio
Let's go back in time and see what commercial printing was like 60 years ago ! These are vocational films going back to 1947 !!!
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May 31, 2010
Carol Jessen prints at Chemers Gallery
Posted by Julio
Here are some very nice images by artist Carol Jessen. For more info and links to Carol's work and Chemers gallery go here:
http://chemersgallery.blogspot.com/2010/05/letter-to-carol-jessen.html.
To go to Carol's website click here: http://www.caroljessen.com/
"The Papermakers" (left) and "Slick Tracks" (right)
"Edge of the Bamboo Forest"
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May 28, 2010
Julio printing in his undershirt....
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May 22, 2010
Kyoto printmaker - Mamoru Ichimura
Posted by Julio
Take a visit to the studio of printmaker Mamoru Ichimura and watch the printing of four postcard sized images all on one block. Part of "Japanese Journey", a 53 minute film made by Don Fairservice and Mitsue Nagashima during a tour of Japan. Music composed by Jean Hasse.
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May 18, 2010
Ukiyoe-Printing using a Vandercook Press
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Printmaker Mark Herschede:
"A brief runthrough of the process I'm using right now to make a bank of images using woodcuts. By using tools which are not normally associated with one another, I've been working towards experimenting with mixing processes. Currently I'm researching the technical aspects of printing water based, japanese style woodblock printing on a vandercook through testing and manipulation of the materials involved."
"It is my hope to be scoffed at by Japanese moku-hanga printers and letterpress typesetting nerds alike. Please! Feel free to insult my experiments! (Or offer constructive criticism ;-) )! Get angry at my usage of a type proving press to print 'cuts'; become enraged at my seemingly smashing attempts at printing lovingly hand-inked blocks!"
For more info on Mark's experiments visit the links below.
Ukiyo-E printing on a Vandercook proofing press- a quick runthrough from Mark Herschede on Vimeo.
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May 11, 2010
Paul Binnie - latest print "Inazuma" (Lightning)
Posted by Julio
From Blue Rim gallery in London:
Paul Binnie, May 2010, (New release)
Oban, 66 x 32 cm. Edition of 40.
'Inazuma' means Lightning, but is a literary term that brings ideas of fertilising the fields derived from ancient poetry. The large format of this print gives a dramatic feeling of the verticality of the bolt of lightning as it crackles between dark clouds and rain to earth.
Within the edition of 40, there are 14 different printings, including 3 printings of solid black overlaid to achieve a deep, opaque darkness in the heaviest clouds.
To see a vast collection of Paul Binnie's prints at Blue Rim Gallery visit this link.
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May 10, 2010
Australian master printer Paul Smith - Colloblock technique
Posted by Julio
Watch the making of "Samoan Skin". Working in the eStudio Editions studio printer Paul Smith with artist Dimitri Lihachov describe the process of making a "colloblock" print.
For more on the "colloblock" technique visit
http://www.estudioeditions.com.au/pages/Collograph-prints.html
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