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Three Days to Kill Editions

on Thu, 01/27/2022 - 18:30

   

I'm pleased to announce a series of two silkscreen editions I enjoyed collaborating on with the fabulous Farhad Mirza:

The Three Days to Kill editions are a set of companion prints Farhad devised to celebrate the release of Kevin Kenkel's first solo single of the same name.

The prints are for sale ($200 / $150 e.v.), please contact me or Farhad to purchase one!

The single is available on Bandcamp

 

 

Magic Sprinkles

on Thu, 01/27/2022 - 18:02

   
   

You can now purchase Magic Sprinkles, Cherry Press' fabulously fragrant Mediterranean citrus hand sanitizer from me and at the Bennington Bookstore and on the College Bookstore's website.

You use a lot of hand sanitizer working on a college campus during a pandemic.  Tired of horrible-smelling sprays and gels, I set out to create a pleasantly-scented, portable disinfectant.

I was inspired by the redolence of cold-pressed lemon oil, an active ingredient in Lemon Plate Cleaner (LPC).  LPC is a non-toxic replacement for lithographic Finisher Preserver Cleaner that I developed here,

Summer Projects

on Wed, 01/26/2022 - 22:14

This summer I have been working on some exciting collaborative printing projects, including a screen print with the delightful Farhad Mirza...stay tuned!  Over this continued period of chosen quiet time (classes are on hold while the pandemic pervades), I've also renovated the studio downstairs darkroom/ litho graining area and taken a long and interesting trip down memory lane while re-organizing the flat files!  Lots of rabbits around this summer, this one likes to visit outside the studio windows and has come back since with its baby rabbit.

 

    
   
  

 

 

Broadway Blooms Editions

on Wed, 01/26/2022 - 20:25

   
   
   

In May 2020, British sculptor Jon Isherwood and I completed a series of three silkscreen editions to compliment the planned installation date of his Broadway Blooms.  Delayed by trans-oceanic supply-chain congestion, on  August 2, 2021, the Broadway Mall Association launched Broadway Blooms: Jon Isherwood on Broadway, a sculpture exhibition at eight locations on the green malls at the center of Broadway from 64th Street to 157th Street.

Jon Isherwood: Silkscreen Monoprints

on Wed, 01/26/2022 - 18:05

Last winter and spring I had the pleasure of collaborating on a series of seven silkscreen monoprints with British sculptor Jon Isherwood.  Jon's fantastic, large-scale, Italian marble sculptures can be seen world-wide and his Broadway Blooms are gracing eight locations along the Broadway Malls between 64th and 157th Streets in New York City through spring of 2022.  Jon's painterly, experimental approach and lively temperament made this project a treat to work on.

      
     
     

Hot Off the Press

on Mon, 07/22/2019 - 19:07

Over the years, many students have suggested that I create a book from my detailed and many-paged instructions for learning Part 1 of my Century Plate Lithography classes and tutorials.

Now you can purchase my instruction book, Non-toxic Century Plate Lithography Part 1 in printed or E-book formats from Blurb.com and from me directly.

Non-toxic Century Plate Lithography Part 1 introduces printmakers to a new, sustainable and environmentally friendly way to produce high-quality, professional, hand-pulled lithographs without using toxic and petroleum-based materials.

This instruction book

Century Plate Litho Super-Intensive at EFA-RBPMW

on Mon, 07/22/2019 - 18:45

 Century Plate Lithography is going International! I spent the weekend of July 13-14 teaching a short and very intensive non-toxic Century Plate Lithography Part 1 class at EFA-Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop to two artists from the Summerworks Residency Program of Art Hub Copenhagen/EFA-RBPMW (Moa Alskog, Anne Louise Blicher), a founding director of KKV Graficworkshop printshop in Malmo, Sweden (Vera Ohlsson) and an artist from Union City, NJ (Ruben Duran). 

The workshop was a super-intensive due to covering a lot in a short amount of time.

Bucolic Printmaking Weekend at Snow Farm

on Mon, 07/22/2019 - 18:20

 

I spent a gorgeous three-day weekend teaching a group of very talented artists during my Experimental Printmaking class at Snow Farm in Williamsburg, MA June 7-9.  We covered relief, intaglio, monotype, collagraph and chine collet printmaking techniques and experimented with combining some or all of them to create colorful, textural multi-layered prints using non-toxic materials, recycled objects and water-soluble ink. 

What a great way to start the summer!  Stay posted for more photos of the wonderful work my students produced in the Galleries pages on this website.

Photos: Randy

Century Plate Lithography Demonstration at RISD

on Fri, 11/16/2018 - 23:08

I demonstrated Century Plate Lithography, a non-toxic and sustainable process using bio-based, biodegradable etches and processing materials at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)'s Printmaking Department on November 6.  I am thrilled that they have adopted Century Plate Litho for the rest of the semester, in place of ball-grained plates and the traditional, toxic and petroleum-based chemistry.

Printmaking Professor Andrew Raftery about to draw on the Century Plate

Professor Cornelia McSheehy and students

More students examine the Century Plate and proof on the press

California Dreaming: Winter Century Plate Lithography Workshop in Sunny California

on Mon, 10/29/2018 - 19:39

Non-toxic Century Plate Litho Workshop Part 1 at CREATE Center for the Arts, Palm Desert, CA

I'm very excited to be introducing West Coast artists in the Coachella Valley to sustainable litho this coming January!  In this workshop students will learn how to grain a reusable Century Plate like a lithographic limestone, prepare a registration maquette and printing paper, transfer images and draw directly on the plates with a variety of media, etch and process with bio-based, biodegradable materials, print on CREATE's etching/relief press, clean and store an inked plate and re-grain a plate for

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