August 8, 2023

We drew at Sir Henry Morales' studio in Albuquerque:

Craig's drawing

PRINTS

The big Albuquerque printmakers gathered at Henry Morales's studio to draw the figure:

The PRINTMAKERS

(l to r) Virgil Velasco, Craig, Ellie Weadock,

Henry Morales, Cody Kamrowski

MY PRINT

VIRGIL VELASCO

After the session Henry Morales printed Virgil Velasco's linocut:

The linocut plate

Virgil inking

Printing with Henry's vintage

letterpress proofing press

The image showed up on the opposite side of the paper

after printing

because it was on thin Japanese paper

Virgil printed on two different papers, and it made a difference.  He printed first on thin Japanese paper, which was whiter and more translucent.  Then he printed on Rives BFK Lightweight White paper, which was yellower:

Prints on both Eastern and Western papers --

The top ones on Japanese paper,

the bottom ones on Rives BFK

REX CULP

Rex Culp sent me his old linocut plate in the mail from Santa Fe, because he wanted more prints from it:

Henry Morales 

printing Rex Culp's linocut

We originally printed Rex Culp's linocut plate two years ago, on August 7th, in front of Hecho A Mano gallery at the top of Canyon Road

Rex Culp far right,

while Henry Morales was printing

his and other artist's prints on a Tortilla Press

ELLIE WEADOCK

We are going to try to make prints from the drawings that Ellie Weadock made that night: