Two transparencies are made from the this stunning original art work and sellotaped together to create a high definition positive for making a solarplate and quality intaglio printing.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Queen Margaret College - Paulette Pavelich
Two transparencies are made from the this stunning original art work and sellotaped together to create a high definition positive for making a solarplate and quality intaglio printing.
Queen Margaret College - Paulette Pavelich
Setting the pressure lever on the yellowXpress 5000 printing press.
Queen Margaret College - Paulette Pavelich
This solarplate from Dan Welden has been over washed but gave me an opportunity to try a technique of laying ink into the etched area and cleaning top, then rolling up a second colour on the surface.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Feilding Rangers and Girl Guides
The Feilding Guides and Rangers Group along with 3 of their Leaders spend one and a half hours making a book and then printing some 'clip art' from the Museum collection of homeprint.
Girls sort through the blocks to find one they like to add to their 'clip art' page.
Feilding Rangers and Girl Guides
Pick up and roll the roller across the picture blocks to achieve an even inking.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
John Brebner - painter
Acrylic painting of the 'sunlight peep' series. This one is 'Sunlight peep over sea'
John Brebner - painter
The 'sunlight peep' is an acrylic painting as part of a series produced in 1984.
Chris Pollard - artist
Chris has cut paper and drawn a line to create this lasting image of 'Back beach' New Plymouth. (from the beach)
Devils Cup 1 kg beans
These freshly roasted beans have been produced by Kev Murrow from Patea. While Michaela returned 14 borrowed prints from an exhibition in Eltham, Kev showed me some of the techniques on my stove top to brew a great cup of coffee. I can smell it now!
John and Allison Brebner - Halletts Bay print
The 'Halletts Bay' print is a combination of MDF cut on a jig saw, letterpress wood type and lead type and blind embossing.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Devil's Cup - Fair trade Coffee
Kev Murrow and his partner Michaela Stoneman ( South Taranaki Arts Co-ordinator) make a cup of 'Devils Cup' in the Brebner Cottage before heading off to Australia for a holiday.
Chrystall Rata - Artist
Chrystall has set a selection of woodtype from the Homeprint collection and printed onto flax paper made by Andrew Reilly. (Tenax)
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Kerry Larkin. Artist.
Kerry is looking down on his latest mural, biro drawing on paper, as yet unfinished with a plan to draw at least one more full row of panels.
The Village Gallery - Bookbinding Workshop
The first stage in the bookbinding process is to fold your paper. We used Eden Grove,white, 90 gsm, A2 sheet. It was very nice to work with and had a laid pattern and a watermark.
Michaela Stoneman had worked very hard to organise this successful workshop in conjunction with an 'Impressions' a fine exhibition of contemporary printmaking.
I was impressed with the enthusiasm and skill of the 9 participants.
The Village Gallery - Bookbinding Workshop
Folding paper. We used plastic, beef bone or bamboo (bone folders) the bamboo folders were popular!
Monday, August 1, 2011
Marty Vreede artist / printmaker / engineer
Bedoni, 96 point, with lead packing 'John Brebner' cast in the Ludlow.
Marty Vreede artist / printmaker / engineer
The stick is turned over to show the brass mats with the letters showing. This is where the molten lead is forced into this space to form the letters as part of the slug.
Marty Vreede artist / printmaker / engineer
Marty shows me how the pot reamer is fitted into place. It sits on the molten metal and controls the pressure into the mat.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Marty Vreede artist / printmaker / engineer
Marty invited me to view his newly restored Ludlow type caster. The pot that holds the molten type metal heats up to 600 degrees and then is ready to cast lines of type. With some experimentation with the type box, individual type may be cast.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Kelvin Tane - Publicity Manager for Te Manawa
Kelvin Tane looks at some biro drawings by Kerry Larkin while visiting the Homeprint Studio. Kelvin is working on a series of workshops to be held in conjunction with a new printmaking show due to open in October.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Elisa Pellacini - 'use A book'
'use A book' by Elisa Pellacani is a 428 page delight. Demonstrates and exhibits many creative ways of making , constructing, illustrating and publishing, then using, 'books'.
Most of the text is in Spanish with some English translation. The photographs and illustrations are in the universal language of the global village. Elisa is also the driving force behind the annual 'artist book' fairs that travel around Barcellona. She is looking for new material for the 2012 travelling show.
Homeprint Tool Shed Repair
The shed where I assemble the A4 printing presses has had a makeover by David White. My help was limited but I do need to complete the batons to secure the plywood skin.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
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