Do you remember the first print you ever made? I was very young, five or six years old. There was an interesting piece of metal type that my brother had brought home from work, a decorative corner bit. I pressed it into plasticine and inked that using the inkpad from…
Derek Jarman's Garden Prospect Cottage, Dungeness - four colour multi-block linocut print Do you remember the first print you ever made? I remember the wondrous feeling of turning the handle of an Etching Press and peeling paper off wet black ink to reveal my first ever linocut print. I had…
Steve Dixon in his studio Do you remember the first print you ever made? Foundation course - it was a reductive lino cut of a red peppper! 2. Are you a trained artist ~ do you think that's important? Yes, BA and MA at the Royal Academy of Art, London.…
by Michael Craine, third generation colour man and Director of Cranfield Colours The British crime writer Agatha Christie said that being married to an archaeologist was great. The older she was, the more interest her husband showed in her! The old is new again and printmaking is in a fascinating…
William Kentridge and Liz Chalfin - William drawing with coffee Liz Chalfin, the Director of Zea Mays Printmaking, a non-toxic studio in Massachusetts, recently embarked on an exciting trip to Johannesburg to teach a workshop at Artist Proof Studio. Whilst there, she was introduced to William Kentridge, one of the…
We want to know what makes you tick. We'd like to know your printmaking processes and share them with other printmakers. Answer this short series of questions and return them to printdayinmay (at) gmail.com Do you remember the first print you ever made? Are you a trained artist ~ do…
The Great Wave at Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai This article was published in Resurgence Journal, May 2017 by printmaker Rod Nelson. Often the greatest artists make it easy for almost anyone to appreciate their work. Their work seems ‘natural’. Although a lengthy intellectual and aesthetic apprenticeship may be required to…
I just returned from a short residency at El Taller Experimental de Grafica in Havana, Cuba. Eight American printmakers worked alongside Cuban printmakers using Solarplate technologies founded by Dan Welden. Dan provided Solarplates for the Cubans and we had a wonderful time teaching them how to use the Solarplates and…