Collaborative Printmaking Night

We made a collaborative print in Henry Morales' studio on May 30, 2024:

The final collaborative print

Henry Morales, Ellie Weadock, Krrrl, Casandra Encinias, and Virgil Velasco all carved 12 x 6 inch linocuts from drawings that we all made from the same long pose during the drawing session on April 23, 2024 at Henry Morales' studio.

Henry Morales, Virgil Velasco, and Ellie Weadock

pulling the print

The first idea is to submit the collaborative print to the New Mexico Art League in Albuquerque for their Body Language exhibition, July 18 to August 17, 2024 (reception on August 3rd, 2024). The  dimensions, including the frame, has to be no larger than 36 x 36 inches:

We want to submmit the print to the New Mexico Art League

 for the Body Language exhibition

Layout

Drawing a template

The template

Covering the template

with a sheet of plastic

Double sided tape on the plastic,

so that the plates don't migrate under pressure

when rolling through the press

Ellie tearing down the paper to size --

we used an Asian paper, Sekishu (24" x 39")

Laying out the linocuts

Speedball Super Graphic Black

Shining a light on the linocut

to find the un-inked parts

Laying down the paper

Covering the linocuts and paper

with a printmaking blanket

The moment of truth!

The collaborative print

Touching up the print

Cleaning the linocut plates

 with baby wipes

We made some proofs (of just four of the plates) during the drawing session on May 28, 2024, at Henry's studio.

• Next we will cut all these plates into thirds, and recombine them, to make "Exquisite Corpse" prints.