January 3, 2024

We drew at Fusion in Albuquerque:

By Ken Romig

PRINTING

BIG INK

BIG INK is coming to FUSION in Albuquerque.  We signed up to make a big print with them on April 13th and 14th, 2023:

BIG INK 

is coming to Albuquerque on April 13th and 14th

The BIG TUNA

press that BIG INK uses

Henry, Ellie and Virgil are going to collaborate to make the big print.  The idea is to cut down a big piece of MDF board (from 2x3 feet, to 40 inches by 8 feet) into three separate pieces, carve them individually, and then ink and piece them together to make one big EXQUISTE PRINT.

OUR TEAM

Virgil Velasco (left, green shirt)

Ellie Weadock (middle front)

Henry Morales (back right, black shirt)

They've made collaborative prints before:

Virgil Velasco (left)

and Henry Morales (right)

made this collaboration print

I mean, we have to answer all the big prints down in El Paso somehow, no, from their PRINT PACHANGA last July:

Print Pachanga in July 2023,

at the El Paso Museum of Art

We've done some big steamroller prints before, back in September 2020:

Steamroller printing in Albuquerque

Rather Henry Morales and Mike Kimball did some big steamroller prints in Albuquerque, in September 2020:

Henry Morales (left) and Mike Kimball (right)

carved the plates for the big steamroller prints

I would like to do a parallel project -- by CNCing an image (probably in SVG format) into a big piece of MDF at Quelab.  Then we can cut more details by hand with smaller knives, and even print it by hand with the Estampadores Manuales:

The BIG CNC machine

at Quelab

Midjourney

We could even try CNCing an AI image

I am sure that we can print big with hand devices -- Estampadores Manuales -- that we ordered from ARTEINA of Barcelona:

 

Hand printing device

from ARTENIA

of Barcelona, Spain

Printing a bigger plate 

at with the hand printer

End of North Fourth

We took down 88 prints from our exhibition at the North Fourth Art Center today, January 3rd:

We hauled away 8 buckets of frames

after taking down our show at the North Fourth Art Center

We put all the prints into two small 8x8 inch scrap books, which make them a lot easier to store and view:

Our prints in the 

8x8 inch scrap books

When we took the prints out of the frames we noticed some residue on the glass -- from the prints made with AKUA inks:

Residue on the framing glass

from the print made with AKUA ink