Frances Valesco at Big Ink Studio
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…
Salt Spring Island Printmakers
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…
Snapped; MT Aggies
I love it when fun things line up! Started my drawing of ‘Snapped; MT Aggies’ mid February and just finished my last layer just in time for @printdayinmay! For this image I experimented by adding a copper drypoint to a 4 layer reduction woodcut, a first for me! With lots…
Cross Section print series
Cross Section print series. 2025/2026. Each is 30 x 22 1/2 inches. Edition sizes range 5 to 8 impressions. Processes include Silkscreen, Relief Collograph, and Lithography.
PRINT DAY IN MAY SYMPOSIUM IN SONOMA!
The Sonoma Community Center is hosting a Printmaking Symposium for Print Day in May! Step into the exciting world of printmaking with a full day of print-focused live art demonstrations led by four talented local Bay Area teaching artists. Each artist will demo twice over the course of the day…
Geranium
This is my first eco print using pressed leaves on watercolour paper, then soaked in alum and rusty nails. There is some hand painting and chine colle over top