Relief printing with Don Pybus

Don Pybus completes the framing of his fantail woodblock . This one of two framed prints Don has completed as specials gifts to his young grand daughters.

Hillary Kelly - WWOOFer

Hillary Kelly, a WWOOFer from Ohio, carefully cuts the sleeve and after fitting it over the stylus holds the stylus up to the camera.

Alejandro starts veranda

Alejandro spending a week at Homeprint to help me with a serious improvement to the deck/covered yard/storage situation. The open decking with fence and lean-to shelter for storage is well past its used by date! First the careful removal of the structure was required then the repair to the wall of the house. Last step is to design and build a new covered veranda so I can keep my circular saw, work bench etc out of the weather but away from the back door to the studio. Here Alejandro is measuring the beams for the roof.

Liz Neale, Irene Mason 'artists in residence'

Liz and Irene keep on rolling out new colours and experiment with mixing the Akua Intaglio/ relief ink.

Liz Neale, Irene Mason 'artists in residence'

Liz Neale has hung her sets of lino prints out to dry.

Liz Neale, Irene Mason 'artists in residence'

Irene Mason has hung her set of monarch butterfly prints to dry.

Liz Neale, Irene Mason 'artists in residence'

Liz Neale and Irene Mason are working on their lino cuts.

Boris and Corinne, Woofers from Switzerland

Solarplate print hand coloured.

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.

Boris and Corinne, Woofers from Switzerland

Boris and Corinne hang the lino prints of Cliff Whiting in the Homeprint Gallery.

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

Leo Brebner

I will place a dot here! and here and here. You can paint some too Allison!

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'.

Leo Brebner

Leo dips the roller in the acrylic paint and carefully rolls it on to his page.

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.

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.