10 posts tagged “printmaking”

I've been busy lately (and not taking many pictures), thus I've neglected this blog.  A few things have happened; among them, Halloween was most awesome.  I dyed my hair purple:

I've also been working a lot with color in my art.  For my midterm critique in printmaking, I took ten of the palettes I've been making through COLOURlovers and paired them up.  I then printed them at about 10" by 18" on fine art paper using the inkjet printer.  Here are the pairs I came up with (click to see them bigger):

We at MECA recently had a visit from a couple of printmakers calling themselves Drive By Press.  They gave talks about the history of printmaking and of Drive By Press itself, and showed some of their massive print collection, much of it gathered while on the road making prints.

They also set up a printmaking press on Oak Street and printed their woodcuts on tee-shirts for the MECA crowd and whoever else happened to come by.  Here are some photos of the operation:

This week we've had local artists give talks and show works in two of my classes.  Very exciting! 

On Monday, Daniel Minter visited my Illustration class and showed us many of his prints and some of his paintings, as well as published work, and then did a short demonstration on printing carved rubber blocks.   This is one of the works he showed:

My last print assignment was to create a piece for a show entitled "Undoing Racism," to be opening here at MECA in early April.  Despite the specificity of the title, the show is meant to discuss all forms of inequality.  I chose to focus on sexism, and wanted to create a work depicting a strong, iconic female figure.

Here's the result, a two-color silkscreen:

This weekend I am taking part in a gelatin plate printmaking workshop through the Continuing Studies branch of my school.  We're forming a couple of books from the prints we make, but before we started working on them we had a chance to just play around a bit  here are a few of the experimental prints I made:

Here's another small print I made recently (4"x6"; the hummingbird is 5"x7").  It's a "seacow" made for an alphabet
zine collaboration in my printmaking class.  I printed an extra edition of 50 because it was made using a Gocco machine, an extremely convenient form of screen-printing.

Hello again, everyone!  I've been quite busy with final projects and preparing for my foundation review, but here's a bit of art for you: