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.

Liz Neale, Irene Mason 'artists in residence'

Liz Neale, Irene Mason and our passing WWOOFer Hannah analyse.

Marion

Marion spend 2 days as artist in residence, to learn how to make a book. Briefly Marion, folded her paper with a bamboo folder, made the sewing holes, sewed the 8 sections together around the strings on the stringing frame, glued the endpapers, covered the spine with mull then paper, made the case and finally glued the sections into the case. Her result was spectacular.

Jo and Liz Constable and Sophie Littin, 'Artists in Residence"

Sophie getting down to work.

Jo and Liz Constable and Sophie Littin, 'Artists in Residence"

Never do, on dots.

Jo and Liz Constable and Sophie Littin, 'Artists in Residence"

Blind embossing.

Jo and Liz Constable and Sophie Littin, 'Artists in Residence"

FRENCH.

Liz Constable (Book Artist) from Waitakere, Auckland

Setting lead type in preparation for locking up and printing onto a large variety of surfaces using the Hunters proof press. The Pearl Platen Press is a 100 year old platen press and Liz also printed 50 or so cards as a special product.

Elizabeth Plumbridge - artist in residence.

Solarplate intaglio. Test plate.

Elizabeth Plumbridge - artist in residence.

Elizabeth Plumbridge - artist in residence.

The art work has been created using drawing with pencil, collage of image and text and painting with Magic Color. The next step is to prepare the plate with 105 seconds aquatint screen of UV light. Followed by printing a positive transparency on the Hewlett Packard ink jet printer. The art work to be exposed for 90 seconds under UV.
One minute wash out, dry, 15 minutes UV to harden,then print.

Elizabeth Plumbridge - artist in residence.

Elizabeth has made a solarplate intaglio from a collage and printed a postitive transparency. Now she is spreading the Akua ink with cardboard into the image before wiping back with newsprint.

Wall of prints.

Kathrin carved 4 images on MDF and lino. These were inked up in different colours and printed out using the yellowXpress 5000. As you can see from the photo, Kathrin had trouble stopping. ( that's wonderful- we never run out of paper in the Homeprint Studio) My technique is choose the best one from each of the carvings and withdraw them from the edition. It is best to sign and date them at this stage so you have a record of the first cut. The remaining prints, the bulk of them, will be over printed with at least one more colour after the second carving. Reductive or subtractive carving.

Kathrin Knapp, artist in residence.

Kathrin stepped in the door of Homeprint Studio and started carving. So many ideas to try out. Here Kathrin is carving with the carving tools I import from JAPAN. First step is to draw a large simple outline of the image onto MDF or lino. Then carve the outline with my custom made 'V' tool. Using the Homeprint A3 hydraulic yellowXpress printing press Katherine is printing 5 or 6 copies in each chosen colour onto white and coloured paper. Next step is to carve more detail and even new information into the carvings then I will show Kathrin how to over print with the 2nd colour.

Sharon Wright - 'Artist in Residence'

Sharon is carefully laying the second colour, pencil carved, plate onto the first print, with very careful registration.

Sharon Wright - 'Artist in Residence'

The set of test prints from Sharon's positive grained glass transparency. Time is needed to ink up and print with the Akua ink to gain the density and detail required. The ink is softer and needs gentle handling, takes practice! Sharon's results at the end of the Residency were stunning.

Sharon Wright - 'Artist in Residence'

The Homeprint Studio light box in action for Sharon's solarplate exposure.