Michael Smither

'Poets Bridge', little painting by Michael Smither held in the Brebner collection.
This great painting has been published in Michael's book, 'Michael Smither Painter'.

Michael Smither

The large 'Poets Bridge' print by Michael Smither goes up in the UR office, 181 Upper Cuba Street. We have a little painting from the 'Poets Bridge' series in our collection.
(there is a copy of the painting we own in Michaels Book)

Allan Harnett

Natural stone sculpture by Allan Harnett.

Black Sheep Design

The shower timer is very handy as it counts down backwards and gives a continuous ring for your attention. The negative is trapped under the 5mm glass, on top of the jet plate that has had its cover sheet removed.

Black Sheep Design

The negative is placed onto the jetplate, the clean 5mm glass is placed on top, all on a carry board. The Homeprint Studio lightbox is converted from an old sunbed and can carry many photoemulsion screens for screenprinting or solarplate exposures. The beauty of this system is the UV light flicks into action very quickly and the lamps may be turned on and off with out damaging them. The lamps are also a lot cheaper than the vitalux bulbs.

Black Sheep Design

The little cefmor - brehmer key is used to tighten the furniture against the jet plate block.

Black Sheep Design

The rubber bands are stretched across the paper fingers to help lift off the print after the impression.

Black Sheep Design

The jet plate block is locked into the chase and the inking rollers from the Johne Monopol have run across the block laying an even film of oil based ink.

Black Sheep Design

The paper is laid out on the platen and the gauge pins are adjusted.

Black Sheep Design

Black Sheep Design

John adjusts pressure on the Johne Monopol art platen press.

Black Sheep Design

The first trial proof to see if he negatives were OK and the first washout of the Jet Plate looking for best exposure. I tried 30 second strips from 2 min to 3.30min. They all looked fine but I chose 3.30min for these two images.

Black Sheep Design

Stacey, the Principal of Black Sheep Design, shows the jet plate block and the final print.

Steve and Kelly, American WWOOFers

John made this gluten free loaf of bread in the Bread maker.
Steve was trying a gluten free diet as he had been suffering stomach pains after eating a meal and gluten intolerance runs in his family. This bread was given 10 out of 10 by Steve who thought it was the best he had ever tasted! I would take the credit if only the 'Panasonic Bread Maker' baked the bread and I only followed the recipe on the bag of flour.

Steve and Kelly, American WWOOFers

Allison teaches Kelly and Steve how to make sushi, assemble chicken and fresh vegetables onto a cooked rice base, then roll with the help of seaweed wrapper on a bamboo place mat. Cut into 6 bit sized pieces, dip into sauces and eat! Yum.

Steve and Kelly, American WWOOFers

Kelly shows off her carved plate and a couple of the images she produced. In a very short time Kelly and Steve produced about 100 prints using 2-3-4 colour prints from carving MDF and floor vynol overprinted words with some fonts of 100 year old wood type.

Steve's prints

A mountain of experimental relief prints using waterbased ink, yellowXpress 5000 relief press, variety of colours and weights of paper, carved from MDF and floor vynol.

Steve and Kelly, American WWOOFers

Steve rolls out ink ready for another over print on one of the 5 series of prints he is working on.

Andrew Reilly and his world famous 'bull shit 'paper

Andrew delivers the first batch of artist grade 'bull shit' paper to Homeprint. Only 2 suppliers of this specific paper in new Zealand. The texture is smooth on one side and lightly textured on the other. Around 100 gsm in weight, lightly sized, acid free, ready for printing on.