KRЯRL DЯAWINGS: Prints Crawling

Printmaking warms up as we move into summer:

PRINTERS PLANT

Albuquerque

On May 25, 2024 I will be doing print demos in Albuquerque at the PRINTERS PLANET market at FUSION:

I will be doing printmaking demos in Albuquerque

at the PRINTERS PLANET at FUSION

on May 25th, 2024

COLLABORATIVE

TESSELLATION

PRINT

Virgil brought in a carved "hat" linocut, so Henry Morales pulled a new "tessellation" print in his studio after the drawing session on May 21, 2024:

Tessellation print

with four collaborators:

(cw) Casandra, Virgil,

Ellie, Krrrl

Virgil's new "hat" linocut

PRINTING

It's somewhat of a challenge to print from these puzzle pieces. After inking it's hard to move them to the press in the same order:

VARIATIONS

These "hat" linocuts can be arranged in many different ways:

Henry actually pulled proofs of two different arrangements:

Two different combinations

of the same four linocut pieces

EL PASO

PRNT PNTG

While in El Paso I checked out the opening of the "PRNT PNTG" print exhibition of the UTEP students at Alameda Art and Salvage on May 20, 2024:

PRNT PNTG

student print exhibition

at Almeda Art + Salvage in El Paso

The UTEP student print exhibition

Alameda Art + Salvage

gallery

The big event will be the closing during the evening on May 30, 2024. So people just trickled in during the opening. Sara Saucedo came when I was there, so I took a picture of her in front of her print:

Sara Saucedo

The PRINTS

Lithograph

by Karen H

Lithograph

by Frank Dia

Manuel Guerra, the printmaking professor at UTEP, found an old copper etching, and reworked it with a portrait that he drew:

Manuel Guerra

reworked an old etching plate,

putting a new image on it

Manuel Guerra's printmaking studio -- Horned Toad Prints -- is adjacent to the gallery. So Manny was pulling a print for someone while gallery sitting:

Manny pulling an etching print proof,

that took an hour to wipe

Examining the proof

This plate was created

by someone else (not Manny)

The UTEP student prints are pretty impressive and humbled me deeply:

Humbled by the prints,

I was reduced to panhandling

outside the printmaking studio

Later Deborah and I went to get a Americanos coffeees

at the Coffee Party nearby

in the Falstaff building

WORKSHOP Idea

Perhaps we can bring a stack of "hat" shaped linoleum pieces to a coffee shop, get artists to carve something in 3 hours, and make a big collaborative print before they leave:

20 "hat" shaped linoleum pieces

fit in this hard plastic box

March 31, 2022

Dennis Liberty and I

carving at a coffee house in Albuquerque

Henry Morales giving a carving/printmaking workshop

at the Hubbell House in Albuquerque,

September 9, 2023

The major challenge would be HOW to make a big print, with multiple puzzle pieces -- however perhaps we could do that with the "Estampador" hand printer from Barcelona:

Hand "Estampador"

from Barcelona

OLD SHEEPDOG BREWERY

This past May 14th, 2024, Cruz Ortiz came from San Antonio to do live printmaking at the Old Sheepdog Brewery in El Paso. Manuel Guerra also did live printmaking at this event: