Bonjour Printmakers! I just returned from Paris where my research residency at L’AIR Arts in the Montparnasse neighborhood of Paris was highly productive, fun, inspiring and exhausting. There were 14 artists involved, from the US, England, France, Lithuania, Romania, Russia, China, South Africa, Brazil, Ecuador and Chile. Everyone spoke English,…
Speedball Art Materials – six $50 vouchers for Akua Inks, Speedball Art products and Arnhem printmaking were awarded to: Melanie Gleaves Morrett & Brenda Kay Brown, Mary Mathews & Nicole Rudolph, Jackie Goldman Kaufman & Donna Drouin Cranfield Colours – three £50 vouchers for printmaking materials awarded to: Anne Brierley,…
Written by Debra Norton for The Star, June 8th 2019. Published online here. Nancy Jacobi, Founder of The Japanese Paper Place Nancy Jacobi has been passionate about traditional Japanese washi paper since she discovered the handmade paper while teaching English in Japan forty years ago. “It was everywhere at that…
Collaborative copper plate etching “Sunraysia” by Sandra Starkey Simon & Mei Sheong Wong, printed in Magpie Studio South, Belair.
Mei Sheong Wong with copper plate etchings printed at Magpie Studio South, Belair, South Australia.
We had a stellar time at the Atelier Meridian, in Portland Oregon, pulling monotypes for Print Day in May! Young and old alike were getting inky and sharing stories and then there was cherry pie... and BBQ and beer and pink wine. Three main food groups of the printmaker. Thanks…
Alternative to Traditional Printing Press An exciting day began as we attempted several alternative press runs. The first is posted under the inkspots posting. This is our really big attempt. Using our car* as our press. Subaru Press *attempting to convert our video so we are able to share the…
Four of the original members of the inkspots of San Buenaventura got together in Ventura, California on Print Day in May to all make a fun print of their feet. They then added fun rubber stamps of feet plus lettering to mark the day on the print. Following is a…
"I have, for my whole life, worked with wood and that has undoubtedly helped me with some aspects of woodblock printmaking. Although I have been making woodcuts for many years now, I am still continually excited by the potential of this ancient medium. Woodcut makes images that simply can not…
Experimenting with contact botanical print on watercolor paper. Added Chine colle addition of focal frog printed on Washi paper. Printing experimentation is too much fun.