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…
These prints just came through. They are by artist Bertrand Clement, in Bora-Bora, French Polynesia. In the spirit of Print Day in May, prints are everywhere!
It was a crazy busy week-end. Art Ambiance show, demo/display on linocut and woodblock printing. Poor Opal never got cleaned up proper.
Polar bear on tooled leather --I was off to a late start Saturday, but will soon be printing from this piece of tooled leather. I retooled the polar bear as I thought it looked like he was standing on a mountain in the original, and printed the new version. Finished…
Having been invited to join in the printing fun by Grandma, our kids produced these prints of Nigerian plants and some African wax print fabric footprints. Nice work kiddos! (the printing was done yesterday, but Dad was a bit slow getting the work posted here)
We had a great day today at the MPC print shop. We had some folks with us who were with us over ten years ago when we started this event, first semester printmakers working on Solarplates class projects, and a guest artist who made her first print. We were pleasantly…
To celebrate Print Day In May, I thought it would be fun to invite my community to visit my home/studio for an afternoon of making prints. We had a great crowd...probably couldn't have held any more people in the house. For many of the participants, it was their first experience…