Last night we printed with the participants of the first series of Up The Mesh Count workshops. Check out some of the prints they made!
Registration for the June sessions opens at noon on June 1. You can keep up-to-date on what’s happening, and see many more photos from the workshops, by visiting the Up The Mesh Count Facebook page.
Today was all about the linocuts in the Levigator Press studio. Our studio member Jennie was in pulling editions of a few of her Dashing Critters:
You can find Jennie and her lovely work at the Ford City Night Market, starting on May 5! Check out more of her work here: Jennie Nunweiler Art on Instagram
Later we had a new student in printing an edition from her first lino block:
Meanwhile, I was carving away on this:
Our co-op student Aiyana finished her first hand bound book today!
This student came into the studio and put the last colour on his canoe print:
Last night we had another session of our block printed t-shirts class. A group of friends (two couples and the 12 year old daughter of one of the couples) signed up and took the class together, which is always a fun time! Here are the amazing shirts they designed:
Some progress on our students’ reductive woodcut prints. The campfire image is finished; the difference between the third run (blue) and the final run (black) is subtle, but very much in line with what the student was hoping to achieve. Getting those tiny stars to come through in four runs of printing required perfect registration.
The canoe print has one more run to go before it’s finished. To contain the red colour to just the canoe, our student printed it using a stencil, cheating the reductive method to make that part of the print pop.
The staff for Up The Mesh Count have been in the studio printing up covers for the project zine. Here they are all chilling in the drying rack after a long day of printing. They look pretty rad, and they glow in the dark!
Up The Mesh Count is funded by Ontario Arts Council and the City of Windsor Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Find out more about the project here: Up The Mesh Count Facebook page
Last night’s students printing their first and second colours:
We had so much fun in this class. The students hand stamped designs on their shirts using woodblocks, linoleum blocks, rubber stamps, wood type, and letterpress ornaments. Have a look at their amazing shirts:
Today we had another student drop by to make some paper relief monoprints. She used a combination of die cut paper designs and hand cut pieces to come up with some lovely layers. Here are just a few of her prints:
My co-op student Aiyana got involved too, and made her first monoprint:
