Several months ago I created this linocut of a heart. The photo below shows my initial sketches, the carved linoleum, and the print on paper and on fabric. I wanted to take it further, but wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with it. I’m currently enrolled in a six week silkscreen printing class at … More Silkscreen meets Lino
Here’s an update on the printed piece started during a quilting retreat in Healdsburg. I finished it today and titled it Rain Dance. I was inspired to create a California themed linoleum block print on a background pieced from yellow and white scraps (more here). The colors and silhouetted dry seedpods represent our current … More Rain Dance
When Katie’s Luminous Linocuts class started up again a couple weeks ago, I decided to create a large print on a background pieced from yellow and white scraps from a recent quilting retreat at Bishop’s Ranch in Healdsburg, CA. I wanted the background to create a landscape feeling with a darker silhouette of plants in … More Piece, Print, Quilt
In Katie’s last monotype printing class for the year, I decided to continue experimenting with fabric to create texture and pattern in my monotype prints. I brought in some pieced and stitched or quilted fabric sitting around in my studio. My experiments started with inking up the plate with a few colors creating interesting shapes … More More Monotypes
In October I attended a two day workshop with Kerr Grabowski learning her deconstructed silk screen printing techniques. Her methods include creating designs and textures on fabric using thickened fiber reactive dyes, then printing the designs onto fabric. I created a good “stash” of fabric during the two days and some more when I got … More Deconstructed
I had a delightful evening at Katie Gilmartin’s Mesmerizing Monotypes class at Chrysalis Studio at SOMArts. Earlier this year I took her linocut classes, and had such a blast, I thought I’d give monotype a try. The other students in the class were experienced with the techniques, so everyone just dove right in. Katie gave … More Monotype Experiments
One highlight at the Chrysalis Studio Open House and Group Show at SOMArts yesterday evening were portraits by young printmaker Owen Christoph. He has done a number of portraits prior to this, but created these as part of a high school project on history of gay rights. He chose two heros and two antiheros from an … More Prints by Owen Christoph
Chrysalis Studio‘s annual Open House & Group Show SOMArts in SF last night was a huge success with at least 150-200 guests attending. Exciting to see a variety of fresh-off-the-press fine art prints and see demonstrations of linocut and mono printing techniques by Chrysalis Studio printmakers. Artists included: Greg Adams, Owen Christoph, Jan Currie, Katie Gilmartin, … More Chrysalis Studio’s annual Open House & Group Show
Since my previous post, I’ve had a couple more lessons at Chrysalis Studio in SF. Refining my technique for cutting the linoleum and learning more ways to print including easy ways to use more than one color in a print. Here’s my first print from the class: Seed Pod 4″ x 6″ Here’s the same … More More Linocuts
I loved the process of making linocuts in my Printmaking and Public Art class last year, but didn’t continue making linocuts because I didn’t have access to a press. Until now . . . I’m taking Luminous Linocuts with Katie Gilmartin at Chrysalis Studio in SF. The class started this week and goes for 6 … More Luminous Linocuts
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