Saturday, March 31, 2012
Boris and Corinne, Woofers from Switzerland
Boris and Corinne display the special potato and egg meal. This is a traditional Swiss dish.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Boris, graphic designer from switzerland.
It is pretty special to have such a lovely original birthday card created by a gifted graphic designer from Switzerland. Boris and Corinne have been with us a week and live in the flat of the Homeprint Book Art Studio.
Sheilah Wilson 'artist in residence'
Sheilah Wilson lays paper (dampened 310gsm Fabriano) onto letterpress type.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Michael Smither
Small 'Rocks Revisited' painting by Michael Smither, exhibited at Unlimited Realities office, Walter Street, Wellington.
Michael Smither
Large 'Rocks Revisited' Michael Smither painting, on exhibition, in Walter Street, Wellington in the Unlimited Realities office.
Boris and Corinne, Woofers from Switzerland
Boris and Corinne hang the lino prints of Cliff Whiting in the Homeprint Gallery.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Monica Coe
The 3 Sheppard's about to dine on Monica's Sheppard's Pie. Allison is holding a hand set poem that Monica wrote, set in Rondo Bold Type and printed.
Monica Coe
Pancakes Jamie Oliver would be proud of. Monica made up a batch of batter and offered icecream, black berries, maple syrup, brown sugar, golden syrup, raspberry jam and bananas as sweet fillings
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Leo Brebner
I am interested to watch Leo painting the colour onto the woodtype with the brush in his left hand. He uses deliberate strokes from front to back. Then stamps 2 or 3 times.
Leo Brebner
Leo paints the colour on the woodtype with a paint brush then presses it on to his painting.Here he is stamping the upper case 'A'.
Monica Coe
The Homeprint Library is a serious workroom. Monica is checking the level of the Michael Smither lino carving as part of the collection of Smither works for sale in this room. Under the paintings and screenprints, drawings, relief prints, lino prints there is a significant library of books. The library is made up of Artist books from around the world, letterpress manuals, type catalogues, printmaking, art, old, poetry and a few coffee table books for reference. In this room I have a set of 2 x 5 AO mapping draws which also acts as my cutting table for picture framing.
Llara letterpress type setter from Ohakea.
Llara carefully lifting off the paper print from the type. The 2 verses on flight by John Gillespie Magee, handset in a galley and printed on the Hunters Proof Press (1900)
Taupo Teachers hit Homeprint
Sally Davies with her mountain print. Sally organised a weekend for herself and 2 other talented, enthusiastic artists to have 'hands on' printmaking at homeprint. The accommodation was with the Hopkins at Raceway Motels, Awahuri Road, Feilding. Beautiful rooms, great service and a reasonable price!
Taupo Teachers hit Homeprint
Mandy Thomas rolls out Akua ink onto her solarplate. The yellowXpress 5000 was in regular use all 2 days of the workshop.
Taupo Teachers hit Homeprint
Jo Burch has her solarplate facing the sunlight to catch the UV needed to preharden the plate, 'nearly to the top', 1 minute 45 seconds.
Friday, March 2, 2012
Homeprint New UV Lightbox 'Sunstrike'
Wow! This is the first test solarplate from my new prototype UV light box. It looks as though 3 minutes will be about the standard time for a relief solarplate using the negative transparency.The relief print from the solarplate is crisp and clean with the guides of time indicating the exposure with the best results.
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