Mixed Media The team at Cranfield took time out from MAKING ink to THINKING about ink and PRINTING with some of our favourite colors! Using a simple printing plate depicting a tin, members of the team each chose a colour or colours they appreciate to produce 14 prints. Once dry,…
The memo said use earth colours. Not everyone did but we are pleased with result of each persons effort! Most of whom are not printmakers...!
It’s been a tough year to be creative, at least that’s been the experience for some us here at Cranfield where despite access to presses, space, inks and paper, we have at times lacked energy or inspiration to make art. Members of the team here are encouraged to use our…
TIME OUT - was a lithograph drawn directly onto a pronto plate from life using permanent markers. Then it was photographed and exposed onto an "image On" Intaglio plate printed with an additional plate for monotype over it. A SENSE OF PLACE - was a large sumi ink and brush…
Here I was moaning that I couldn't get into the print studio and your gentle rebuke that it was all about printing AT HOME: making do, doing the best with what you have, widening the circle of print makers, made me realise how much I have to be going on…
"It is Red Bud time, a May Day moment here in Maryland, so there are bursts of fuchsia light along the sunny sides of woods. But other delicate and tender things keep coming out and filling in and soon the red buds' very own leaves will push the blossoms off.…
Neermala Luckeenarain was born in Moka in a very modest family of six children and attended Notre Dame des Victoires RCA School for her primary education and the Loreto Convent School of Rose Hill for her secondary education. She started painting at the very early age of nine and which…
I just returned from a great trip to Massachusetts, where I was an artist in residence and workshop instructor at Zea Mays Printmaking and a guest lecturer at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University. It is wintertime, and the cushy climate at my home in Aptos, California…
Print Day in May continues to gain momentum and popularity! However, despite the business of PDIM Ieva, from the small PDIM admin team, and Michael, from ink maker Cranfield, find time to reflect on what makes this wonderful event so rewarding. Please listen the podcast here: Print Day in May…