Something About Nothing

Decided to work on my carving skills by taking a printmaking class at SaltGrass Printmakers with Stefanie Dykes . The SaltGrass Printmaker studio is awesome. This was my original drawing for the reduction print. Before we started our reduction prints, we created some art cards to trade. Stefanie showing how to ink up the lino,  and then how to line up the paper to print. My print is the purple hippo in the center. A week later we started printing our first layer of the reduction print. And then time to carve off more. And the second printing. The class was over before I could finish. I will have to go back next year to finish up! A few of my classmates finished their pieces and they were magnificent! I learned a lot from being around other printmakers and I really look forward to returning!

The Book Arts Program at the University of Utah sponsors free workshops.  My friend, Dana Perez, introduced me to the program and I am in love!  My daughter and I went to our first Drop In workshop a couple of weeks ago and we had a grand time. First we went into the wet classroom and learned about Print Litho from  Allyn Hart .  We used black and white copied images that we covered in a liquid gum arabic.  The gum arabic acted as a resist.  We then rolled an oil paint over the image and the paint stuck to the copied image, allowing us to make a print of the image. There were a lot of people participating. Fun to see so many of all ages enjoying art! These are our prints and ghost prints: The two cleaner prints in the center are my daughters. Sigh.  She picked this up quickly. Next we went into the larger classroom and made . . . Gelli® prints! She really enjoyed trying out new things in her prints. ...