Printmaking at CNM -- westside Albuquerque

We made three EXQUISISTE TESSELLATION Prints at the westside campus of CNM in Albuquerque, during Aaron Bass' printmaking class, on September 17, 2024:

The third and last print

Ellie inked and printed,

and basically did all the work

COOKIE CUTTERS

The night before (September 16th) we designed a 3D printed a tessellation cookie cutter with COOKIECAD, and 3D printed it at Quelab:

Download -- "hat-monotile-cookiecad.STL" (295.88 KB)

to 3D print a Tessellation cookie cutter

TESSELLATION COLLAGING

We can print the tessellation tiles on aprons, t-shirts or other cloth items, collaging them together to make an overall print like the work of the late Michael Roman.

An "overall print" by the late Michael Roman,

who taught me how to silk screen in the 90s

at the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco

Michael Roman printed vests and t-shirts for Santana,

Santana in an allover printed vest

The key to the overall print is using paper "masks":

The night after (September 18th) I laser cut some tessellation "hat" shapes in paper -- the exact size of the "hat" linocuts -- to be used as "masks."  

Laser cutting "masks" in paper

The Quelab laser cutter settings

After printing tessellation tiles on aprons or cloth with Gamblin Relief Inks, we can cover the "hat" tile prints out with the laser cut paper tessellation "masks," and then push color over the apron through a large silk screen frame.

In this fashion, we could silk screen all the white areas on Henry's apron with color:

Henry's apron could use some silk screened color