Paper relief monotype class
Here are a few prints from tonight’s fun class:
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Letterpress private instruction
Today a student came into the studio and printed a little set of these sweet thank you cards using our gorgeous 24-pt shadow typeface. Blind embossing on Crane’s Lettra letterpress paper.
Monoprint party
Tonight we had a few friends into the studio for a fun monoprinting session. They combined techniques of rolling and drawing ink onto the printing matrix with pressure printing, paper relief, and stencils. Some of the results were pretty fantastic!
If you want to try this, it’s a fun and easy introduction to printmaking if you’ve never done it before, and if you do have printmaking experience, it’s a low-investment way to try out some new ideas and techniques. There’s no carving, no prep work, and no editions! We have another session scheduled for March; check it out here: Monoprint Class link
Today in the studio
Today we had a student in for a private instruction session in letterpress. She printed a small set of cards and will be back next week to do another design!
Up the Mesh Count
We’re pleased to be working with Windsor based artist and art educator Michelle Soulliè€re on her new project Up the Mesh Count: Screenprinting For D.I.Y. Musicians, funded by Ontario Arts Council and the City of Windsor Arts, Culture, & Heritage Fund. We will be teaching local musicians how to screen print their own promotional materials and how to build their own screenprinting equipment, and producing a how-to zine on screenprinting to be distributed locally. Windsor is about to experience a D.I.Y. screenprinting revolution!
More information will be made available shortly, including where you can sign up for the workshop sessions (taking place in April, June, and September of 2016).
The project is also hiring! We need a studio technician to work with us throughout the project, and an illustrator to help with the zine. You can check out the contract postings here: Up the Mesh Count Studio Technician and Illustrator Posting
Drum leaf bookbinding class
Tonight we had a workshop in drum leaf bookbinding, an all adhesive (no sewing) method that produces a pleasingly sturdy little book with a fully integrated cover. It’s a great binding choice for artists because each two page spread is unbroken in the gutter. We love making these books. Here are the finished books:
Assembling the cover onto the finished, trimmed text block:
Rounding the corners on the finished book:
The success of this binding relies on having a high quality trimmer that can cut through an entire book in one go. Up until this week we haven’t been able to trim books like this properly in the studio because my 100-year-old Chandler and Price paper trimmer (Choppy) was in the basement of my home. But we finally mustered up the strength to move it to the studio, opening up a whole new world of bindery options. Here’s Choppy in her new home:
Letterpress workshop with SoCA students
This morning we had the students from Victor Romao’s Advanced Printmaking class from the School of Creative Arts, University of Windsor into the studio to set and print a collaborative broadside. It was a fun and energetic group of students and they made some great prints! Thanks Victor for bringing them out.
Screenprint class
Last night’s screenprint students printing their two-colour images:
A bookbinding lesson
It’s been a quiet week in the studio but I got to give an impromptu midday bookbinding lesson today. Thanks Bev!
Bookbinding class
Sometimes I get so caught up in teaching a class that I forget to take photos. That’s what happened in tonight’s fun Coptic Bookbinding class, so you don’t get to see the final results! Here are a few shots of student books in progress, though:
