Bartolomeo Pinelli

Normally when people think of Dante's works: the Inferno, Purgatorio, and the Paradisio, the illustrater that pops into their head is beyond a doubt Gustave Dore. As a bibliophile I occassionally like to indulge in looking at early editions on ebay, this fellow popped up for an Inferno search. If I might add there is also a facebook thing for him.

Walton Ford

Really like this guy, he does watercolors that are the dark side of Audubon.
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/ford/clip1.html
He worked with a master printmaker named, Peter Petengill at Wingate Studio. They handle their multiplate a little bit different-as a two person job, but it looks like a really effective registration trick. The print shown above is I believe a six color job.

Rather than leaving the paper and felts down while it printed, the other person held the paper and felts back and gradually lowered it to the plate (making sure it was lined up right) as it was run through the press.

Dios de Los Muertos

I started this one awhile ago for a Dios de Los Muertos Print show. Decided to finish it up. Might do a little bit more. It really didn't scan that well.

Istanbul Defense Ministy takes over the Historic Printmakers' High School

For some reason this article just caught my eye. I hope some day they go back to offering tours of the Printmakers' High School.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=8220why-doesn8217t-the-ministry-of-defense-evacuate-those-storages8221-asked-gunay.-2010-10-05

Maybe this is part of the Printmakers' School...wishful thinking. A golden cage to keep frustrated and wayward students from running away.

Battle Weary Athena - A Valentine's Day Offering

I started this one towards the end of my Marywood stint. Athena was the goddess of wisdom, originally she was also the goddess of love, but a change in politics occurred with the birth of the beautiful Aphrodite. I suppose having intelligent educated women in charge of love was not that appealing to males. She was relegated to the goddess of war after said birth, although are the full attributes of Athena really that bad of a combination? The goddess of love, wisdom, and warfare. After all is love really without its scraps? Is it better to fight them with wisdom or the blind rage of Ares?

Curious and Frustated

Alright was looking for an Egyptian printmaker and I came across Maher Raef (1926-1999). I cannot find a single image of his work, and I am also rather curious about a term they used in the article blurb I did find on him. The man evidently made technical inovations in the processes of "cameo and intaglio." (http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/989/cu11.htm ) I mean I know that cameos are that profile Victorian jewelry thing, I did find a thing that talked about cameo proofing in terms of minting coins http://www.ehow.com/facts_5030440_cameo-proof.html?ref=fuel If anybody has a clue about this I would greatly appreciate it.

On the Importance of Bacon

There is something very special about bacon...In Judaism part of the reason the pig is viewed as being unkosher is because it is too close to human. With that in mind if Catholicism really wanted to attract followers they should forgo with the cracker communion and go with bacon.

English people of coarse know the importance of bacon. Back in the day, the custom of the Dunmow Flitch was to give a newly married couple bacon if they had a peaceful year and could honestly say that they had been faithfull to one and other over that time period. Anyways found some sweet bacon prints by Mike Geno http://www.artstarphilly.com/

Step into the Light - Orit Hofshi

I came across this printmaker, hailing from Israel, and really liked her stuff. She specializes in monumental wood cuts that are intricate enough to be wood engravings. Included below is a link to her artist statement and bio. She is showing in all the big places for printmakers these days. If I ever go back to Israel I may have to try to meet her. Her name incidently comes from the Hebrew word "or" meaning light, if I am not mistaken the word light in Hebrew is almost like snow in Inuit.

http://www.ipcny.org/exhib/exhib_np/np_bio/hofshi_orit.htm

http://www.laprintmakers.com/site/files/u3/interleaf/InterleafSpring2010.pdf