I, Liz Egan, was excited to inaugarate my new Print Studio with two of my favorite printers, Helen Cantrell, who was doing woodcuts, and Nancy Whitcher, who was doing monoprints on my new Takach 2448 Press. I was working on drawing fluid silkscreen using Speedball Inks and Transparent Base on…
Woo hoo! So glad to be part of Print Day in May again. I look forward to it every year. This time, I am working in my home studio, focusing on personal metaphors. I like working with collographs, water-based monoprinting, and using my drymount press to collage shapes. So glad…
(I wrote up a post but it got deleted by an error message saying my images were too large 😩) Hello from a letterpress printer in Virginia, U.S.! Today I: * printed some advocacy posters (on various backgrounds: one, two & three) * printed on paisley fabric squares * finished one…
I put the final color on my turtle woodcut today @ Center for Contemporary Printmaking. Happy Print Day in May!
Hi everyone, Hello from Salt Spring Island on Canada's west coast. We're in our collective's studio, experimenting with using trash to create collagraphs and gelly prints. We've just taken down Th-Ink! the 2nd Islands Printmaking Biennale and it was a tremendous success. Over the month of April, 65 printmakers from…
I recently took a monotype printmaking class and am hooked. It was fun joining in Print Day in May and these monotype were inspired by my travels. I’m grateful to Creative Arts Workshop and my teachers, Maura Galante, for the community of artists and the invitation to be playful and…
Spending my Print Day in May working in my studio to print a woodcut edition. Wunderwerck X is part of a study series based on Conrad Lycosthenes 1557 Prodigiorum. It's a very normal horse, until you take a good look at the legs. Carved with tools and woods from @mcclains.printmaking.supplies and…
I tried a technique where I use paper, torn and cut, which I ink, then apply to the acrylic plate with other elements like plants, netting and oats, to create a scene. The last one is a ghost print. I used paper from an old photo album, which was made…
This is a growing collection of sheep that I'm etching with caustic soda and carving. At an open studio event some people saw my Romney linocuts at an open studio event, and were quick to suggest breeds local to them. As I continue to add different breeds from around the…
