My finished print! "Diversity is Beautiful" “Diversity is Beautiful” is a 3-block, 8-layer Mokuhanga (Japanese Woodblock Print) effort, utilizing Bokashi and Mokume techniques. The print celebrates the beauty of the Holbein watercolors' interaction on the sturdy and beautiful Shiramine 110gsm paper, a Kozo blend. The print size is 8.25” x…
A Sense of Place Fine Art in Fresno generously hosted my Mokuhanga printmaking demo. the audience loved the tools, paper, contemporary and classic examples I have collected over the years and a look into the process. I printed the 8th and last layer on this 3-block relief print using shina…
Inspired by the work of local printmakers, I purchased an old book from a used book store in Oaxaca, Mexico. I used three different lino plates to make this print of a flowering yucca that is native to where I live. The yucca plant is framed through an arched window.
22 artist members from the Shepherd&Maudsleigh Studio each printed a 4" square block. Theme was SPRING! Each artist arranged the blocks all together and printed one large print. Using all the blocks reconfiguring the arrangement the prints all were unique. Fantastic collaborative effort and super fun day!
Hey, we are from Toronto, 6 artists got together in the studio to print today for International Print Day! Here we are in Studio #366, in the wonderful creative arts building at https://401richmond.com/ We had a lot of fun, a creative day, doing linoleum blocks prints, drypoint etching, on beautiful…
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…