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

Old Marywood Plates

I found these two old plates that I had started back at Marywood and decided to finish them. They're just small quick little things both are engravings with mezzotint and dry point, although the fingerprint one on the left also has line etch in it.

Egypt Show

The title links up to the first phase of the Mini Print exhibition held by the New Library of Alexandria, Egypt. The size requirement on the prints was 10cm x10cm maximum. I really liked a few of the artists, some of whom I might add I was not able to find any images for on the internet. Some of my favorites:
Hany Alashkar, Farouk Shehata, Sumi Perera, Alexandru Jakabhazi, Mary Hood, Margarida Holler. Honestly, I actually liked most of them.

Scottish Printmaking Controversy

I found this rather old article. The title leads to it, and if you are ever in Scotland be sure to check out: Glasgow Print Studio, Dundee, Edinburgh Printmakers, or Aberdeen's Peacock Printmakers.

www.peacockvisualarts.com

www.ediburgh-printmakers.co-uk/

www.dca.org.uk/

www.gpsart.co.uk/

Scottish roots

Due to an unforeseen take over by a dead distant relative by the name of Longshanks, I have decided that I need to get back to my Wallace side.




Robert Colquhoun (1914-1962)

Really liked this guy, it is a lithograph called Absalom's Head. Unfortunately could not find much for his images.









Sir Muirhead Bone

This is a Scottish artist by the name of Muirhead Bone. The top is a lithograph of a shipyard seen from a big crane. To the right is a drypoint of excavations in Manhattan conducted in 1923.

Brains, Brains, and more brains

Snuck up on this printmaker, Sarah Sears, and really liked her work.

Old Fox Lady prints

I pulled these two a long time ago, and they are the only two from this plate. It was done, I think, during my first semester of graduate school. It was an experiment in plexi and embossement. The plate ended up snapping.

Lilac

Drypoint/Mezzotint/Embossement-too bad so sad, had wanted this one for Leicester, but was destroyed by assholes.

Not Really being Completely me

Thought about it, and I am not being completely me. Might as well just throw everything out there.

Damn it

I have been screaming out ideas to the voices in the wall of my apartment, and this was more or less one of them! Fear, fire, foes!

http://www.underwatersculpture.com/pages/gallery/underwater-gallery/index.htm

Flourescent Light with page 26 from Painting: An Aid to the Fuller Appreciation of Fine Paintings and a Description of the Various Techniques for the

(I got cut off in the title) Layman, Student and Artist, by Paul Konody, Arthur Dewing, Warren Cox, Kojiro Tomita, George P. Ennis, Jean G. Goulinat, Sir Tomas Walker Arnold, Paul Jamot, H.B Whele, James B. Manson, F.T. Weber, Charles Masson, M.H. Spielmann, G.C. Williamson, A.E. Propham, M.C. Salaman, Daniel Yarnan Abbott, Emil Carlsen, Frank Brangwyn, George W. Dawson, Alan Burroughs, Henry Tonks, and Arthur P. Lanvic; Garden City Publishing Co, Inc: New York, 1935.

Alright, not overly Crazy about this one. I did it on the fly for the Library of Alexandria mini print thing. I don't know, kind of wish I had left some of my lines thicker on it. At anyrate, anyone who knows me will realize the humor and irony of sending style and suitability. Brilliant person that I am I did not figure out until after printing last night that I should chine cole after printing.

Sean StarWars

I don't know why I haven't written about him before. I discovered him through the Cannon Ball Press website in graduate school via printfever. I was delighted by the idea of someone sneaking off in the night to steal billboard paper, and the wall paper installation stuff made me go "Fuck yeah!" I hate matting. For those with an historical bend: matting came about during the Rococo in order to protect their flying baby prints and disguised mistresses. Prior to that prints were tacked up and or applied to the wall with wax, and then ripped off when they got too nasty. Not to mention this guy is obsessed with Mountain Dew, and if I might add I am horribly jealous of him. Follow the title to his website.

3 Calls for Entry

Atlanta Printmakers Studio
http://www.atlantaprintmakersstudio.com/

Ink and Clay
www.dcimprint.wordpress.com/category/call-for-entries/

Printmaking Council of New Jersey
www.nj.com/independentpress/index.ssf/2010/01/printmaking_council_of_new_jer.html