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October 27, 2005
Wedding Gift Woodcut Edition
Hello all,
Here is a woodcut I did as a wedding gift for the 2 folks pictured. I gave them an edition of 12 figuring that they could then give them to friends and family. So thats 12 of my prints out in the world and 0 in my drawer (except 2 APs, just in case) - usually it's the other way around! Size is about 9"x12".
Posted by Dan Allegrucci at 09:45 AM | Comments (1)
October 13, 2005
Center for Contemporary Printmaking workshop pix
I've recently returned from Norwalk, Connecticut's Center for Contemporary Printmaking where I taught another five-day Japanese Printmaking workshop, my fourth at CCP. This was the smallest group to date, only four students, but all accomplished artists in other media.
The CCP September, 2005 group -- Natasha, Roger, Mike (me), Nash, & Judy
I always try to 'adapt' the traditional Japanese techniques to each student's interest and work methods while encouraging them to work to an easy scale with multiple over-lapping block designs. This group was unusually receptive and quick to grasp everything I had to offer, and I think everyone enjoyed the experience and several will surely continue to print moku-hanga, incorporating their new skills into their ongoing work... What a ball! Here are some more photos:
Nash carving her Palmistry block
Nash brought in a photocopy of an old Palmistry chart -- all thin lines and tiny lettering. We registered it to her kento (which she had already carved into the narrow side of her blocks -- not recommended!) and pasted the photocopier bond paper to the block using rice paste -- brushed the paste thinly onto the block and tapped it up into little tacky peaks, then positioned the sheet carefully and pressed it down flat and smooth with the printed side up (as the photocopy was already reversed during copying). An hour later I demonstrated carving techniques, outlining and relieving each line to be printed, then clearing with small gouges, etc. Nash worked on the block part of two days, and I assisted with additional carving during a long evening to complete it.
two of Nash's completed blocks
Nash inking up her Africa block
One of Nash's prints using the two blocks pictured above.
more examples of Nash's prints -- these incorporated some collagraphed blocks -- cardboard with wood and other materials glued on, then sealed with acrylic medium.
I don't mean to monopolize the workshop report with Nash's prints -- these were just the first photos I 'grabbed' for viewing. Everyone did notable work, actually.
Judy, for example, brought in a lot of brush and ink figure studies and wanted to reproduce them in prints similar to the figurative work I've been showing in recent years. She separated the tones by hand, working long and quiet hours drawing contours, then carving several blocks and finally printing them by patiently building up subtle color layers and gradations.
This is Judy, brushing up one of her blocks.
and here she shows off several of her prints in progress.
Natasha is a big fan of Miro and her own paintings and monotypes are abstract and somewhat Miro-like (seemed to me). She attempted to make something like her usual imagery by figuring out shapes and colors in advance, then carving the blocks and printing. I think she was a little frustrated that the blocks 'locked her in' to the already defined and carved shapes, and she didn't feel she had time for more carving, so she experimented with monoprinting the blocks and obtained some interesting prints, I thought.
Natasha's block set
an example of the print Natasha more or less intended -- this one has some metallic gold printing from one of my demos which she did not intend :-)
One of Natasha's monoprints -- this pulled in two printings from a single block.
Roger has been making abstract paintings over gold leafed paper -- he sizes the paper, then very patiently and slowly builds up thin layers of lightly pigmented acrylic varnish, brushing the pigment into roundish patterns.
Roger carved his square block designs with a set of kento on each of the four sides so print papers could be rotated over the blocks to build imagery similar to his paining.
I suggested that Roger try preparing some printing papers with metallic leaf and then try building up paste and pigment onto the metallic and non-absorbant surface.
One example of Roger's hanga over gold leaf
Both his conventional prints and his leafy prints (as he obtained results over the leaf which he liked, he 'sealed' them with acrylic medium, then built more onto the medium, and so on working with small changes and thin color layers. I liked his prints a lot.
Here Roger brushes up one of his blocks
...and pulls a print
One of Roger's more conventional prints
In the print above, I'd demonstrated bokashi printing using sumi -- Rogers subsequent printing lifted some of the sumi creating an interesting reversal.
So, it was a great experience and we all learned a ton! So much fun -- I'm already looking forward to next time!
-- Mike Lyon
-- www.mlyon.com
Posted by Mike Lyon at 04:28 PM | Comments (3)
October 06, 2005
My First Show
Posted by : Gilda Machado
www.gemz@earthlink.net
I wanted to share some prints that are currently up at the:
The Kirk Theater, Theatre Row
410 West 42 Street
New York, New York
This show is presented by "INTAR Theatre"
and is in conjuction with a play written by my brother
Eduardo Machado titled "Kissing Fidel"
The prints can be viewed before and during each show in the Lobby
and Lounge on the second floor.
show hours can be view at www.theatrerow.org
Here are a few of the prints for sale and on view in New York.
Eduardo (image size: 10" x 8")
Exile (image size:18" x 24")
Chest were ripped open, when time stood still,
in the hearts of our father's, the past does not die.
La Espanola (image size: 24" x 22")
Continue reading for more images.
More prints:
Divine Love (image size: 14" x 18")
Posted by Gilda at 03:32 PM | Comments (3)
October 02, 2005
Gary Luedke's new website now open ...
Kansas printmaker Gary Luedke has just opened up his new website, featuring his 'Prints of Hawaii'.
http://printsofhawaii.com/index.html
There are two kinds of prints on the site:
- woodblock prints cut and printed to his designs by hired craftsmen (in Japan and America), and
- digital prints produced by Gary on his own equipment.
Here's one of the digital designs:
And here's one of the woodblocks:
Lots more on the site ... please take a visit! I'm sure he would appreciate hearing your comments about his work ...
Posted by Dave Bull at 10:44 AM | Comments (1)
October 01, 2005
Special in the [Baren] Mall ... free prints!
A new page has just gone up in the [Baren] Mall ... a special offer of a free print with every order over $100.
The 'Special Offer' page is linked from the Mall Map:
http://www.barenforum.org/mall/map.html
Our current special offer to [Baren Mall] customers is a handmade Japanese woodblock print.
A while back, one of our members living in Japan saw an interesting item posted on Yahoo Auctions there. It was for a stack of 50 woodblock printed Xmas cards dating from the 1960s. They had come from a professional printer's workshop, and were presumably 'left-overs' from an order placed with him by a company having cards made up for their clients. (click to enlarge photos)
One of the Prints
They are real woodblock prints ... carved and printed by hand. As you can see from the photos, there is an inner face with the Xmas greetings (in Japanese) from the company, but you could trim this off if you wish ...
The stack we purchased
An opened card
What is our 'special offer' on these? Simple ... we will send one of these to you at no charge after you place any order of over $100.
As they say ... 'offer good while supplies last'. We have set aside 25 of these cards for this purpose, so the supply should last for a little while ...
If your order doesn't reach the $100 level, you can still get one of these prints; they are $5 each (post paid)
http://barenforum.org/mall/special.html
Posted by Dave Bull at 04:28 AM | Comments (0)