Updates from July, 2012

• Upcoming Class: Fundamentals of Relief Printmaking

  9:53 am on May 10, 2013 | 0 Comments Permalink | Reply
  

  I’ve got some exciting news!

  Starting next month, Duffy O’Connor and I will be co-teaching the relief printmaking class at Chicago Printmakers Collaborative. Duffy is full-time faculty at Harrington College of Design, where he teaches drawing, design fundamentals, and relief printmaking. He has been working with this process a lot longer than I have, so it is a real honor to teach alongside him.

  For this class, we will be covering everything from single to multi-color relief prints on wood and linoleum, printing by both hand and press, transferring images, and much more. Here are the details:

  Fundamentals of Relief Printmaking
  Mondays, June 3 – July 22, 2013
  8 weeks, 6 – 9pm
  For more info, sign up/share, visit: CPC Class Schedule
  
  Here we are working on a woodcut for the poster, which we designed and carved ourselves. We even printed some of the posters using handmade ink!
  
  
  
  
  
  Final woodcut poster, 11″ x 17″ (click for larger):
  
  
  
  
  The ink-mixing process: The pigment is thoroughly mixed with Burnt Plate Oil No. 3 to create rich and smooth printing ink.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

   

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• Snakes and lino prints

  3:44 pm on March 6, 2013 | 2 Comments Permalink | Reply
  

  A couple things I’ve been up to recently. I’ll be posting more soon!
  
  
  
  Working on some quick linoleum prints at home
  
  
  
  
  This is a tote bag I designed to use as a demo for my screen printing class. I wanted to show the students how to separate colors by hand, without going anywhere near a computer. I made a drawing of the snake in pencil, then traced out the color separations using Dur-a-lar film and opaque black markers. These were exposed onto screens and printed in yellow and blue inks. The green is created wherever the two inks meet and overlap.
  
  
  
  the snake bag
  
  
  
  
  A small lino print of a ‘ghost tiger’ creature that I made a while back.
  

   

• More Relief Printing

  11:54 pm on June 18, 2012 | 0 Comments Permalink | Reply
  

  I have been carving away wood blocks at Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, getting ready for a show in July… Here are some sneak peeks, take a look!
  
  
  block carving
  
  
  
  ink station
  
  
  
  test/proof print on newsprint
  
  
  Here’s a look at one of the finished prints from a narrative series I’ve been working on: